The Fort Smith Convention and Visitors Bureau recently honored the recipients of the organization's GRIT Awards.
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, how little pieces of blue plastic are being recycled at Mercy hospital. We'll also go to First Tee of Northwest Arkansas in Lowell to find out how golf and life are intricately connected. Plus, we'll hear a song from Elephant Revival recorded in the4 Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.The week's headlines were filled with stories of one senator's emergency heart surgery, and with several lawsuits at the state level.
A Pulaski County Circuit Court ruling yesterday nullified the state's new voter ID law, the Arkansas Supreme Court rejects a motion to rehear a case in which justices refused a multi-billion dollar judgement against a major pharmaceutical company, and state legislators hear reasons why the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid is costing more for plan holders than was previously projected.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, golf is a sport, but it's also a vehicle for life lessons about honesty and perseverance. We visit the green as First Tee of Northwest Arkansas spends an afternoon teaching values to area youth. Plus, a look at the senate race in Arkansas.The University of Arkansas' Department of English is offering a showcase of all the ways the department touches the campus and the state.
Becca says tonight's performance by the Improvised Shakespeare Company at Walton Arts Center will be unique.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, other ways to teach and other ways to learn. We go inside a local school of innovation, and we'll go on stage in Bentonville as Northwest Arkansas Community College prepares their staging of The Giver.
Ahead on Ozarks, Mercy Hospital continues its commitment to sustainability with a new recycling program. Also a conversation with the author of “Sharecropper's Troubadour.” Michael K. Honey's new book Sharecropper's Troubadour gives us details of the life of John L. Handcox.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Governor Mike Beebe talks special session and another effort to attract European businesses to Arkansas. Plus, we learn more about XNA's master plan for the future and whether E-gas is the fuel of the future.
Becca Martin Brown lets us act like a tourist in Little Rock.
"Yeah" by Olive Oil
Our Ozarks at Large insect expert takes us on a fishing expedition in search of aquatic bugs in Clear Creek.
at end of show: "Throwing Stones" by Sweetwater Gypsies
The design for the Ben Geren Aquatics Park in Fort Smith has been finalized and will soon be let out for bid. And, a journalist that was once critical of the Clintons speaks about the state of the news media.
"Oh! Whiskey" by Jimi Goodwin
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas leads a roundtable discussion, which includes newly-elected House Speaker-designate Jeremy Gillam.
In the olden days, your local apothecary prepared all your medications. Now, your pharmaceutical industry mass produces everything from prescription Ambien to Xanax.
But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, the lost art of individualized compounding is undergoing a revival—and more intense review. (Photo: Collier Drug Compounding Lab Staff-- front row left to right: Denise Roark, Jana Evensen, Corrie Stout, Melissa Mashburn, back row: Andrew Mize, Justin Bolinger.)
"The Haunted Dance" by Glenn Kotche





