The 21st Cancer Challenge is just one of many ways to support nonprofits in the area this month.
Ozarks At Large
A recent study suggests that Arkansas' two racetrack and gaming complexes have a sizable impact on the state's economy. Fayetteville Public Schools prepares to offer free meals to city youths through the summer, and an effort to raise the state's minimum wage gets a groundswell of support.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Republican Attorney General runoff candidates discuss medical marijuana and the death penalty. Also, we take a look back at the desegregation of public swimming pools.
In this month’s food segment, we visit the Arkansas Food Innovation Center where the Roberts family makes Gina’s Salsa. 
Later this month, Siloam Springs will be home to a Whitewater Recreation Park, the first of its kind in the state.
Memorial Day marks the opening of public swimming pool season across America. And this summer, an article about pools and race will be published in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, titled “Going off the Deep End: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Public Swimming Pools.” Jacqueline Froelich spoke with author and historian John Kirk.Officials with the U.S. Marshals Museum yesterday approved its 2015 budget, which includes allocations for architectural, exhibit and operational costs. President Clinton speaks to the role presidential libraries serve in providing historical context, and state revenue numbers for May came in below what economists expected.
Ahead on Ozarks, workforce officials try to improve job training to meet industry demands. And, we look at the University of Arkansas' autism intervention program.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, June 23, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, coverage from a groundbreaking ceremony for Bentonville's new high school. Plus, a conversation with the author of “The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness.”
Washington County residents who’re unable to pay their gas or electricity bills will receive assistance from the Economic Opportunity Agency under the Winter Assistance Program.
More information is available on www.eoawc.org.
“Hot Mittens” by Bix Beiderbecke
Last month the youth-oriented United We Dream Network hosted its third national conference in Texas to discuss the next steps for the DREAM Act, a federal bill that seeks to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented young people. There, Ozarks At Large intern, Zessna Garcia found diverse subgroups united in a common struggle.
If one of your resolutions is to start up a new business in 2012, be mindful about naming it. Local organic fast food vendor, Lean Green Cuisine, faces a trademark infringement challenge--by the world’s largest food corporation.
“My Name is Buddy” by Cooder
The northwest Arkansan opera company will hold its first performance inside the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus this month.
Roby Brock from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net talks to a former Arkansas legislator who has just returned from a trip to China.
“Hangzhou Blues” by Wu Man
