Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas and David Goins talk to Senate Insurance Committee Chairman Jason Rapert about the state's public school employee insurance crisis.Ozarks At Large
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas and David Goins talk to Senate Insurance Committee Chairman Jason Rapert about the state's public school employee insurance crisis.The Arkansas Department of Human Services has released numbers that show thousands of low-income Arkansans have shown intent to sign up for the state's Private Option insurance plans. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families releases a report detailing inequality of enrichment opportunities between schools across the state. And furloughed work-study employees at Northwest Arkansas Community College returned to work this morning after a two-day suspension and before negotiations in Washington showed promise.
Ahead on Ozarks, the effort to help residents with some college credit finish their degrees will get a big boost next week when six area institutions of higher learning will combine for a Come Back to College Fair at the Jones Center in Springdale. Plus, we explain the place where advanced math and crochet meet....and looking for the place where mindfulness and mental health intersect.
An effort to improve understanding in the classroom led to astonishing art.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has still more Halloween events to tell us about today.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast comes back to Walton Arts Center this weekend and we talk with the set designer about what we see behind the characters.
And interdisciplinary seminar on mindfulness and mental health titled “Mirror Program for Health and Happiness,” is taking place October 18th through the 20th on the University of Arkansas campus, facilitated by Tibetan Buddhist scholar Geshe Thupten Dorjee. To register visit artibet.com.
The efforts to help area residents with some college credit finish their degree continue next week at the Jones Center in Springdale.The continued government shutdown in Washington, D.C. is impacting the ability of Arkansas farmers to export their crops abroad, and it is causing about 100 workers to be furloughed at the University of Arkansas. J.B. Hunt Transport posts its third quarter earnings report. Siloam Springs considers regulating yard sale signs, and the price of gas creeps downward in Arkansas.
Ahead on Ozarks, the Sustainability Communities Leadership Summit moves to North Little Rock. Plus, a conversation with Hoyt Purvis, one of the authors of Voices of the Razorbacks.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, February 14, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks: Michael Tilley from The City Wire helps us keep with the moving pieces in the puzzle that is the 2014 Arkansas election. Plus last-minute Valentine’s Day plans courtesy of Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers and Shannon Wurst explains one inspiration for writing love songs.
We make a KUAF button and learn how Kassy Gross became K&A Button Emporium in May’s Locally Made Segment.
A Wrecking Ball this month celebrates new beginnings in downtown Springdale.
Becca says that there are all kinds of runs benefitting all kinds of causes, like one on Memorial Day for Arkansas Support Network.
“Take a Walk” Passion Pit, and at end of show: “Six Ways to Sunday” by Blackberry Smoke
The Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks has received a $33,000 grant to help begin the process of implementing Safe Routes to School throughout northwest Arkansas. And, traditional marriage advocates gathered in Little Rock yesterday to voice their opposition to recent rulings in favor of same-sex marriage in Arkansas.
"We'll Be Ok" by Afrojack, Wrabel
In our weekly conversation with Michael Tilley from The City Wire we discuss a $14 million contribution to a planned medical college.
