Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: the Sons of Otis Malone bring all kinds of instruments into our studio and play three songs from their new CD, Bad Country. Plus Michael Tilley from The City Wire on the week that was in Arkansas business and politics and the dreaded white-nose syndrome has been found in bats in Arkansas.
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Yesterday, a fire destroyed a vacant World War 2-era hospital complex in historic Fort Chaffee east of Fort Smith. No injuries have been reported.
Michael Tilley of www.thecitywire.com talks about the impending voting on the proposed one-percent prepared food tax and the potential job losses the city faces after the start date of the Mitsubishi assembly plant was put under review.
Ozarks at Large’s Energy Corps correspondent Christina Thomas talks to Shannon Joyce and Becky Roarke, Energy Corps members at the University of Arkansas’ Applied Sustainability Center. She spoke with them at a Community Development Block Grant event at Walker Park where they were tabling.
Cargill recalls all ground turkey products produced at its Springdale, Arkansas plant; congressional gridlock over funding for the Federal Aviation Administration may cost some Arkansans their jobs and more – on this edition of Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
“Settling With Power” by El Ten Eleven
Rob Grayson of WKNO, our content partner in Memphis, talks about Elvis Presley and “Hound Dog.”