Ozarks At Large

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Monday, August 5, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks. A Facebook-job-posting-a-day approach to getting people in the Fort Smith region who are looking for work. Work Fort Smith is taking a small, but consistent, path to connecting those seeking work to those seeking employees. We'll also review the past seven days in Arkansas politics and business with Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas and two approaches to solar power…including area high school students taking to a swimming pool to test their solar-powered boats. And Meredith Martin Moats continues her series on books about Arkansas with a review of a study of the man who brought electricity to the state, Harvey Couch.
A young musical duo BrynMarcon from Clarksville visits KUAF to perform and discuss their music.
The Ark is a coordinated initiative to increase regional competitiveness. Ozarks at Large’s Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar visited the launch event to find out more. More information is available at www.arkchallenge.org.
“Brutus” by Bugseed
Michael Tilley from our content partner www.thecitywire.com discusses the approval of sales tax extensions by voters in Fort Smith, Texas Governor Rick Perry's upcoming trip to Fort Smith in April, and more.
Updates about Arkansas Razorback baseball and John Brown University basketball, and the University of Arkansas revises guidelines to protect minors who visit campus – on today’s edition of Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
“Caeser” by Ty Segall
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us about a baseball collection on display, a theatre production in Little Rock, and a few musical performances lined up in Tulsa.