Ahead on Ozarks: trying to weigh all of the factors that could have an effect on Arkansas’ economy for the rest of 2013 and into 2014, including home sales, employment numbers, civic infrastructure, the Farm Bill and more. Roby Brock hosts a roundtable to discuss the state of the state’s economy. Plus we continue our series on what the Affordable Care Act may mean for Arkansas with a report about how an insurance company is preparing for change. And our monthly wrap up of visual arts in the region.
Ozarks At Large
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
The document offers information about employment, growth and other issues. It also compares those numbers to similar regions.
A failed experimental grape, cultivated in 1993 by fruit scientists at the University of Arkansas’s research station in Clarksville, has been licensed and crossbred at “The Grapery” vineyard in Bakersfield, California into an astonishing hybrid.
“Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis
Tonight, The Cleverlys perform at George’s, “The Trip to Bountiful” at Fort Smith Little Theatre, and Jeff Coffin performs at Second Street Live in Fort Smith.
An iPhone app is part of the University of Arkansas research that hopes to make solar energy more accessible to homeowners and businesses, making it easy for them to go off-grid.
“Summer Nights” by Benny Green
Ethan Nadelmann, former Princeton professor and the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, will debate U.S. drug policies tonight with Asa Hutchinson, former administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency and former Arkansas Third District Congressman.
