Lineups for music festivals are just part of what to keep your eye on this week.
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Broadway on Ice brings ice, professional skaters and a few tricks you won't see in the Winter Olympics.
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.
State legislators are beginning to make plans for how to use a revenue surplus in the coming fiscal session of the Arkansas General Assembly. A special election today could affect the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid. Gubernatorial hopeful Asa Hutchinson calls for more computer science courses to be taught at the high school level. The Arkansas Department of Health urges people between the ages of 25 and 50 to get flu shots this year. And Fayetteville will look for a new superintendent after the current one announced her resignation.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Springdale claims the lead in job creation for Arkansas, plus a story of moving from small-town Arkansas to post-punk fame: this week’s edition of Arkansongs highlights the career of Beth Ditto…and in about six minutes, an update on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in Arkansas now that the calendar has turned.
When it comes to short term job growth, Springdale is leading the pack in Arkansas, witnessing 7500 new jobs in the last four years. We speak with Bill Rogers VP of Communications with Springdale Chamber of Commerce to find. Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers previews the latest from Shiloh Museum in Springdale.
Tens of thousands of Arkansans are enrolling onto the new state insurance marketplace. The latest ACA enrollment figures through December are pending, but newly released data for the Arkansas’s novel Private Option reveal robust Medicaid expansion. The Arkansas Department of Health says that rates of lung cancer are decreasing in the state, due in part to higher anti-smoking awareness campaigns. Governor Beebe calls for more Arkansans to get a higher education. The Greenland School District is set to spend nearly a million dollars on a new football field. And Lieutenant Governor Mark Darr formally gives his resignation from office amid a string of ethics violations.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, a look at what's next for the ruptured Pegasus pipeline. Plus, we pay a visit to the new Walmart to Go store in Bentonville.
Roby Brock gives us an update on the Big River Steel project and more in his weekly business update.
Becca says kids activities for this week include a fishing derby tomorrow.
Dr. Peter Ungar, an anthropologist at the University of Arkansas, discusses how he looks at teeth to determine the diets of our ancestors and how what we and other animals eat today affects our pearly whites. He is also the author of Teeth: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press.
The latest state revenue report shows a surplus for the end of the fiscal year. State and local leaders celebrated the opening of the 71-B Flyover last night in Fayetteville, and Rogers is working on building a new, modern fire station for the central part of the city.
The Oklahoma Department of Health has confirmed the state's first death due to Heartland virus—a new tick-borne illness discovered in the mid-South. So far no cases have been documented in Arkansas. Jacqueline Froelich spoke with an Oklahoma epidemiologist to find out the status of the virus and how to avoid be bitten.
