With the passage of the private option, Roby Brock hosts a roundtable to discuss reactions to the bill's passage and upcoming primary elections.
Ozarks At Large
With the passage of the private option, Roby Brock hosts a roundtable to discuss reactions to the bill's passage and upcoming primary elections.
Ahead on Ozarks, the Nobel director and secretary talks about the selection process for the annual Nobel Peace Prize; he's on the University of Arkansas campus today. Plus, the Northwest Arkansas Council on jobs created in the area in the past year, and the differences between education in the U.S. and the European Union.
In our monthly, music review segment, we listen to Greg Laswell's new album "I Was Going To Be An Astronaut."Michael Dorcas, a herpetologist at Davidson College in North Carolina, says that although they aren't native to Florida, Burmese pythons are increasingly migrating across the Sunshine State.
The Rogers chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma collected and donated books to Best Pediatric Clinic's reading program.Roby Brock discusses the retirement of Baptist Health System's CEO, the passage of the private option and more in his weekly business and political news recap.The trial of former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner continued Friday with testimony via taped conversations from a bond broker who allegedly received much of the state's bond business after giving kickbacks to Shoffner. And a number of court-related entities in Arkansas are receiving less funding after a decline in court fee and fine collections.
The local musician performs her own song, "Broken Branches" from her new CD slated for release later this month.
In the latest installment of our monthly food series, we learn more about cooking through Jen's Art of Cooking. Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the names of some publications like Time or Southern Living give readers a literal idea of what's printed on their pages, but what about 3W or Due South? We take a look at the thought behind the titles of some of the magazines published in our region. Plus, we talk with Roby Brock about some of the repercussions of Tuesday's primary runoff elections.
Here are our ten clips celebrating dance in honor of the NCAA's Big Dance:
1) Dancing Queen by Abba.
2) Al Pacino does the tango all the way to an Oscar in Scent of a Woman.
3) Marni Nixon provides the voice to Audrey Hepburn's celebration in My Fair Lady.
4) Gene Gene the Dancing Machine delights the audience on The Gong Show.
5) Uma Thurman and John Travolta debate in Pulp Fiction.
6) Chubby Checker launches a dance craze with The Twist.
7) Kevin Bacon makes the case for dancing in Footloose.
8) Los del Rio launches another dance craze with the Macarena.
9) Billy Elliot explains why he dances.
10) Gene Kelly ends the best (disagree?) dancing scene ever in Singing in the Rain.
Apologies to: all those other dances, dance movies and dancing songs. Maybe next time.
Becca Martin Brown begins a week's worth of road trips to start Spring Break off right.
We end today's show with another song from the band's new album Lion's Den.
The university system's board voted yesterday to start offering online courses. And, the state departments of health and education partner on educating schools about the dangers of heat-related illnesses.
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Michael Tilley from The City Wire says the 188th Fighter Wing has recieved approval to spend to $12.5 million to build a facility that could help the unit become an ISR Center of Excellence.
