Pearl Brick tells us about her guitar, and plays another song in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.Ozarks At Large
Pearl Brick tells us about her guitar, and plays another song in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.Today's week in review looks back at the school-related news we've aired over the past seven days.
Award-winning filmmaker Perry Miller Adato recently spoke to a University of Arkansas class. One of her films will be screened at Crystal Bridges April 25th.
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas speaks with blogger Michael Cook about Lt. Governor Mark Darr's resignation.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.
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.
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.
A campaign advertisement begins airing on state TV, an effort gets underway to potentially raise the Arkansas minimum wage, and calls for a public official to resign were all stories we take a look at in this morning's Week in Review.
On this first Monday of the first month of the year, we have the first installment in a monthly series looking more closely at the number of that month. Edmond Harris, math professor at the University of Arkansas, spoke with Christina Thomas about the importance of the number 1.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, a roundtable discussion on workforce education in the state. And, and an effort to expand the footprint of Gulley Park.
On this week's Capitol View, Roby Brock and David Goins speak with sate representative Warwick Sabin and political animals club Rex Nelson about recent political scandals, and the call for ethics reform in the state.
TheaterSquared opens its 8th season with the original work The Spiritualist. This month members of the cast, as well as director and playwright, talked to Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the production in front of an audience at the Fayetteville Public Library.
For years, organic farmer Guy Ames grew conventional varieties of fruits in Newton and Washington Counties. But he was forced to abandon farming, after watching his orchards collapse from disease and pests. Ten years later, he’s farming again, cultivating hardy Ozarks-adapted apples, grapes, paw paws, pears as well as novel drought-tolerant fruit tree stock to sell to local growers. Jacqueline Froelich takes us to visit orchardist, Guy Ames.
"Deer in the Headlights" by Owl City
We speak with an urban wildlife biologist from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission on the increased number of deer in Arkansas.
More than two dozen club sports exist on the University of Arkansas campus, and this week the bowling, skeet and other squads were looking for new members.
