Ahead on Ozarks, what implementation of the Affordable Care Act may mean for Arkansans; our final piece explores what long-term care patients can expect. And, Shakespeare returns to the park, Plus, the future of print media from the Washington Post to the Arkansas Times. How the print and digital worlds are changing and trying to survive. Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas talks with Blake Rutherford of McLarty Companies about how national and local media companies are adapting to changing times.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on Ozarks, what implementation of the Affordable Care Act may mean for Arkansans; our final piece explores what long-term care patients can expect. And, Shakespeare returns to the park, Plus, the future of print media from the Washington Post to the Arkansas Times. How the print and digital worlds are changing and trying to survive. Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas talks with Blake Rutherford of McLarty Companies about how national and local media companies are adapting to changing times.
Administrators say the name Sunshine School & Development Center better reflects the services the organization provides. Yesterday was the first day of classes at the University of Arkansas and we found new students, experienced upperclassmen and free hot dogs.
This year's Shakespeare in the Park by The Classical Edge will include free performances at Lawrence Plaza in Bentonville.
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Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, talks to Blake Rutherford about the future of newspapers and online media sources.To end our summer series on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Arkansas we examine a little known aspect of the health reform law that will greatly expand opportunities for thousands of Arkansans requiring long term health care to receive help, not in an institution, but at home. The initiative is called "Community First Choice Option."
Exxon-Mobil officials meet with state lawmakers to give reassurances about the safety of the Pegasus pipeline. The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture releases a report that claims manufacturing jobs in rural Arkansas towns may never return because of long-term changes to the state's economic landscape. And, state economic development incentives recieve more scrutiny after recent layoffs by companies who accepted them.
Ahead on Ozarks, grasshoppers can be pesky, and in the dog days of summer, we often see them jumping in and out of grass and on our windshields. Today, we go grasshopper hunting with our insect expert. Plus, a new award was given out over the weekend, the latest edition of Arkansongs and more.
As classes begin at the University of Arkansas, Raymond Walters enters doctoral programs in physics and mathematics, all before his 20th birthday.
A guns-rights group organized a rally to illustrate an Arkansas law that went into effect August 16.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is four years old. There have been some bumps along the way, but the games of chance have provided hundreds of millions of dollars for scholarships. We'll talk to the lottery's second director, Bishop Woosley. Plus 40,000 students in elementary and middle schools across northwest Arkansas create art in a single day and the marvels involved with a staging of Carnival at the Alma Performing Arts Center. The show has steam punk costuming, puppets and music.
We celebrate National Novel Writing Month with a "book and writer" montage of songs and film clips.
"Paperback Writer" The Beatles
Nicholas Cage in Adaptation
"Everyday I Write the Book" Elvis Costello
The Shining
Deconstructing Harry
"Book I Read" Talking Heads
Romancing the Stone
"Lady Writer" Dire Straits
Capote
"who Wrote the Book of Love" the Montones
During a recent visit to the studio, Boom Kinetic (www.boomkinetic.com) performed a song from their new album Future Colonial.
State officials announce a potential settlement regarding segregation in three central Arkansas school districts. Camping fees for many campgrounds at the Buffalo National River increase today. Fayetteville aldermen are set to consider changes to the city's mobile vendor ordinances. And new data is released regarding the 2010 flood that killed several at the Albert Pike Recreation Area.
"Welcome To Princeton" by Stephen Trask
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses Walmart's earnings numbers and the higher-than-anticipated budget for a water park in Sebastian County.
Have you received an “Arkansas Earthquake Declination” form in the mail from your insurance provider? The paperwork both informs customers about the availability of supplemental earthquake insurance, not included in standard homeowner policies, and provides an opt out—in writing. But should you risk opting out? Jacqueline Froelich provides an assessment.
