Arkansas' U.S. Senators speak out in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would require online retailers to collect state and local sales tax on purchases anywhere in the country. Officials with the WestArk Area Boy Scout Council voice their feelings about changes to the national organization's membership policy regarding sexual orientation. The Rogers Farmers' Market will be in a different location when it opens Saturday, and the Bentonville School District gets state funding approved for construction of a second high school, though the battle for building bucks continues.
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Nathan Vandiver from our content partner KUAR in Little Rock provides a wrap-up of this year's Legislative Session.

For the past few months there have been meetings, open to the public, to discuss making Fayetteville a city of compassion. We met with two of the organizers of the meetings to find out what it might take for a more compassionate place.
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The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and the Northwest Arkansas Council yesterday announced that the college is now the sixth member of the higher education consortium.

Governor Mike Beebe and the state legislature tie up some loose ends at the conclusion of the legislative session, the Northwest Arkansas Council holds a summit for area leaders to figure out how to connect immigrants--either international or domestic--to resources in the area. A group of concerned area residents held a protest on the U of A campus yesterday in an attempt to draw U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's attention to the confined animal feeding operation set to operate in the Buffalo River Watershed, and a group of UAFS students plan a run to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing.


Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, November 1, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks: Documenting the lives of the unjustly convicted. We talk to Meghan Garner with the One for Ten Project.
The music director and conductor of the Fort Smith Symphony has a preview of the symphony’s opening concert.
The River Valley Regional Food Bank in Fort Smith is running low on the amount of protein available for distribution.
For more information on the food bank, visit www.rivervalleyfoodbank.com.
“Dinner” by Yo Yo Ma
With one in every 110 children now diagnosed with some type of autism, what is the prevalence among adults? Where are they? What are they like? And what prejudice do they face?
An 1857 massacre of more than 120 people, many from northwest Arkansas, earns “historical landmark” designation, Senator Mark Pryor succeeds in getting a measure included in a spending bill that’d let FEMA waive repayments of disaster assistance the agency mistakenly gave to other Arkansas families, and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
Tonight's list includes Huey Lewis and the News in the Walton Arts Center’s parking lot, Arts Live Theatre’s “Bright Box Mailbox Suicide Note,” “Mississippi Innocence” screens at the Lyric Theatre in Harrison, and “Painting Churches” at Arts Center of the Ozarks. Much more is lined up for the weekend.
“I Want A New Drug” by Huey Lewis and the News