Ozarks At Large

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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 from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net discusses an Arkansas Supreme Court decision to award $48 million in damages to rice farmers harmed by Bayer CropScience.
There’s so much to do this weekend that we started discussing it today.
The “Leadership Franklin County” program has been launched at Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus to create leadership opportunities for future leaders from the area.
“People in the City” by Air
Our history expert Dr. Bill Smith explains the grouchy nature of politicians.
Clarinetist Sara Manasreh performed earlier this month inside the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus.