The GOP will be in the majority in the Arkansas Senate for the first time since Reconstruction. Roby Brock of Talk Business talks with senate president-elect Michael Lamoureux.Ozarks At Large
The GOP will be in the majority in the Arkansas Senate for the first time since Reconstruction. Roby Brock of Talk Business talks with senate president-elect Michael Lamoureux.
Ahead on Ozarks: a local group is thinking globally. The Global Orphan Initiative wants to create ways for corporations to help the orphaned children of the world. We’ll have a conversation with the executive director of the project. Plus the week’s business news in Arkansas, the role of pirates in the colonization of the Americas and more.How pirates changed the future of the Americas. We talked with historian Kris Lane during his visit to the University of Arkansas.
The Global Orphan Initiative is a local organization devoted to linking corporations to children in need around the world.
Today is the busiest day of the Christmas shipping season for the U.S. Postal Service, and a group of international dignitaries congregates in Little Rock for an annual conference. Also, the city of Fayetteville Parks and Recreation department devises a plan to hide unsightly utility boxes in some downtown public gardens.
Ahead on this edition of weekend Ozarks: education in the area gets its own report card, and pianist Jim Brickman visits the area.Becca Martin Brown tells us about an exhibit of photographs by Edward Sheriff Curtis that is on display for the final week at Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus.
The Walton Family Foundation and the Care Foundation each announce major gifts for the Jones Trust Friday morning.A group of researchers at the University of Arkansas has found a system to store thermal energy that is both more efficient and cost effective than what power plants are currently using. Christina Thomas visits the lab to learn more.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks at Large, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross discusses federal health care reform, the recent endorsement he received from Governor Mike Beebe and more. Plus the complicated world of intellectual property rights and we continue our series on what health care reform might mean for Arkansas. Jacqueline Froelich examines how small businesses could be affected.
This weekend Fayetteville shoppers will be able to shop at local businesses and have an easy way to adopt a dog. More information is available at www.facebook.com/faydogdaysofsummer.
“The Dog Days Are Over” by Florence and the Machine
New cell phone devices and other portable electronics are providing new ways for people to communicate with each other even if they have trouble seeing the keys. Hali Phillips from our content partner KUAR has this report on the benefits of assisted technology.
Governor Mike Beebe says he continues to look into the benefits and fiscal feasibility of Arkansas opting into the expansion of Medicaid coverage that is part of the Affordable Care Act; the Arkansas Forestry Commission says despite some recent rains in parts of the state, much of Arkansas’ fire danger remains high; and more.
“Blue in Green” by: Mods Tolling
A notable part of Ramadan is prayer so the Center for Multicultural and Diversity Education on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville has allocated its lecture hall as a place where Muslims can go to pray during certain times of the day. In this interview, Hameed Naseem, faculty adviser for the Al-Islam Student Association, explains more about the holy month of Ramadan. For more information, visit Multicultural.uark.edu.
Roby Brock from www.TalkBusiness.net talks with Arkansas’ Surgeon General, Joe Thompson, and Micheal Stock, the CEO of QualChoice, one of the state’s largest health insurance companies, about what to expect now that the Affordable Health Care Act has been upheld by the United States Supreme Court. Roby began the conversation by asking Michael Stock what the new law means for Arkansans.
“Chelsea Bridge” by:Vince Guaraldi Trio
