
Ozarks At Large

SFC Fluidics recently received a $1.5 million grant to further advance its development of the MD Analyzer. It's a device that aims to improve the monitoring of patients with severe brain injuries.
Enrollment numbers are in for Arkansas' Private Option insurance plan, and more younger people have enrolled than their elders. The National Labor Relations Board yesterday issued a complaint against Walmart for how the retailer allegedly handled employee protests in 13 states. And a Frank Lloyd Wright house has been acquired by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.


A Tom Bresh concert in the River Valley and the Waka Winter Classic in NWA are on Becca's music agenda this week.

Yesterday, Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration officials yesterday outlined Governor Mike Beebe's budget priorities to state legislators. Funding for the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid could be in danger after a special election for state Senate yesterday. And the University of Arkansas Fort Smith is in the process of developing its its first Master's degree program.

Broadway on Ice brings ice, professional skaters and a few tricks you won't see in the Winter Olympics.
State legislators are beginning to make plans for how to use a revenue surplus in the coming fiscal session of the Arkansas General Assembly. A special election today could affect the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid. Gubernatorial hopeful Asa Hutchinson calls for more computer science courses to be taught at the high school level. The Arkansas Department of Health urges people between the ages of 25 and 50 to get flu shots this year. And Fayetteville will look for a new superintendent after the current one announced her resignation.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Republican Attorney General runoff candidates discuss medical marijuana and the death penalty. Also, we take a look back at the desegregation of public swimming pools.
The University of Arkansas-Fort Smith presents “South Pacific;” an indie rock show will play at a place called Paradigm Shift; the first of the Clayton Conversations at Clayton House; and finally, Elizabeth Cook will be at Second Street Live. Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers asks - what other reasons do we need to take a trip to Fort Smith?
Ozarks at Large’s Katy Henriksen spoke with Paul Haas, music director of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, about tomorrow’s Masterworks concert, and the challenging pieces it’ll feature.
“Winter Bones” by Stars
Our math expert Dr. Chaim Goodman-Strauss sheds light on the significance of the year 2012.
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is deciding whether to destroy or preserve remaining relics of an early 1900s summer resort built in a spring-fed forested valley south east of Rogers—now mostly submerged beneath Beaver Reservoir. (Photo courtesy: Rogers Historical Museum)
“Smile When the Raindrops Fall” by The Bear Hunters
Michael Tilley from our content partner www.thecitywire.com discusses Arkansan politicians’ reactions to President Barack Obama’s rejection of the current KeystoneXL pipeline project, the closure of Huntington Foam’s Fort Smith plant, and more.
“Plink, Plank, Plunk” by Leroy Anderson