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Friday, October 18, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks:the gavel has come down to begin a special session of the Arkansas Legislature. Chris Hickey reports on the opening afternoon of a session dedicated to solving, if only temporarily, a projected spike in insurance rates for public school employees in the state. Plus: our usual Friday conversations with Michael Tilley from The City Wire and Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers. And Antoinette Grajeda tries to discover the lure of following festivals for one retailer who is selling her wares right now at Mulberry Mountain for the Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Festival.
Roby Brock of talkbusiness.net discusses budget priorities with a co-chair of the state joint budget committee.
Friday afternoon architecture students at the University of Arkansas built structures out of canned goods...an exercise in creativity and raising awareness about hunger.
"(Go) Get It" by Pat Metheny
Tomorrow school children, and the public, can learn more about the human role in clean water at a Fayetteville Waste Water Treatment Center. We get a preview. The event is part of National Geography Awareness Week.
Chad Pregracke is the keynote speaker for the 2010 Arkansas Watershed Conference. More information is available at www.awag.org
"Viva La Musica" by Gipsyland
Many people have taken in the view atop Mt. Sequoyah. Not as many know the hisotry of the retreat center there.