The Early Morning Bourbon Girls play another song inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio, titled "Mountain Lion."
Ozarks At Large
We visit a Knit Night and visit with local knitters about the ways to knit both old and new.
Becca Martin Brown discusses numbers six through ten of the top entertainment stories of 2013. She'll tell us the top five stories on next Sunday's edition of Weekend Ozarks.
A recent report from the Northwest Arkansas Council says the military-related impact on Washington and Benton counties is in excess of $150,000,000.Link: To see the full report: click here
Healing Touch, an international healing program, is a biofield therapy, meaning it deals with the magnetic field around the body, to promote various areas of healing. The Healing Touch ministry at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville is more than a decade old, and now has its own location, ten practitioners and provides more than 600 treatments annually.
Urgent Care Centers are affordable walk-in clinics which serve both cash-only as well as insured patients seeking acute care. But with millions more Americans enrolling onto the health insurance marketplace--and fewer primary care physicians available to see them--urgent care clinics may fill a critical gap. We visit with urgent care provider, Dr. Robert Karas.
Ahead on Ozarks, a company that began on the University of Arkansas campus is on a list of 2013's top technological inventors. Plus the founders of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls…Rebecca Champagne and Meredith Martin Moats…talk about the band's upcoming reunion show at Maxine's Tap Room and play a couple of songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.
The local company NanoMech is included on a prestigious year-end list. (photo by University of Arkansas)
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses the latest edition of the Compass Report and the future of Allen's Foods in Siloam Springs.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the sacrifices some professors make when they sign on as an adjunct instructor. Plus, the personal papers of the prominent Arkansas politician Dale Bumpers are opened at the University of Arkansas.
In 1963, Al Kuettner covered the March on Washington and Dr. King's speech on August 28, 1963. In 2007, he talked to Ozarks at Large about that day. His memoir is titled March to a Promised Land and was published in December, 2006. He died in May 2009.
Pickin' Post host Mike Shirkey discusses his long-time relationship with music.
Those are the respective years that 3 music producers have been hosting jazz and blues shows on KUAF. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas speaks with Robert Ginsberg, Paul Kelso and Daniel Estes about how they got their start and what motivates them to keep going during the launch of our series, 3 People.
Exxon-Mobil officials meet with state lawmakers to give reassurances about the safety of the Pegasus pipeline. The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture releases a report that claims manufacturing jobs in rural Arkansas towns may never return because of long-term changes to the state's economic landscape. And, state economic development incentives recieve more scrutiny after recent layoffs by companies who accepted them.
To end our summer series on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Arkansas we examine a little known aspect of the health reform law that will greatly expand opportunities for thousands of Arkansans requiring long term health care to receive help, not in an institution, but at home. The initiative is called "Community First Choice Option."
