
Ozarks At Large

Yesterday, Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration officials yesterday outlined Governor Mike Beebe's budget priorities to state legislators. Funding for the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid could be in danger after a special election for state Senate yesterday. And the University of Arkansas Fort Smith is in the process of developing its its first Master's degree program.



Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says there is still more to be learned about the Stieglitz collection at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Though Arkansas is still 30% above the rest of the nation, the state is finally seeing declining rates when it comes to new lung cancer diagnoses and moralities due to lung cancer. We hear from Dr. Gary Wheeler with the Arkansas Department of Health.


Sabrina Billings, an Assistant Professor with the department of African and African American Studies at the University of Arkansas, has spent years researching her new book Language and Globalization in the Making of a Tanzanian beauty Queen.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, March 31, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, a preview of an upcoming grief seminar for bereaved parents. Also, Fort Smith releases an annual report on its homeless community.
The Arkansas Board of Education rolls out a new progress assessment system for school across the state, waypoints in Northwest Arkansas may soon be easier to locate, and Rogers school district officials are looking at changing the way early-achieving students receive credit for courses.
:Iceberg Blues" by The Heavy Pets
The number of patient visits to the Northwest Arkansas Free Health Center has increased from two thousand in 2000 to more than eleven thousand in 2011. Now the center is moving to a new, larger space.
Devil's Den State Park will host the inaugural CCC Geocaching Challenge Saturday morning.
"Winter Songs" by The Head and The Heart
"Winter Songs" by The Head and The Heart
The Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality annual gala last weekend honored “Pride at Walmart,” the retailer’s LGBT corporate resource group. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, leaders took the opportunity to speak on the record for the first time about gay culture at the Home Office. (Photo: Walmart 2011 Diversity and Inclusion Report)
Becca says we'll see pirates, ship captains, cowboys, astronauts at the Springdale Public Library as part of its Adventure Day event.