The GOP will be in the majority in the Arkansas Senate for the first time since Reconstruction. Roby Brock of Talk Business talks with senate president-elect Michael Lamoureux.Ozarks At Large
The GOP will be in the majority in the Arkansas Senate for the first time since Reconstruction. Roby Brock of Talk Business talks with senate president-elect Michael Lamoureux.
Ahead on Ozarks: a local group is thinking globally. The Global Orphan Initiative wants to create ways for corporations to help the orphaned children of the world. We’ll have a conversation with the executive director of the project. Plus the week’s business news in Arkansas, the role of pirates in the colonization of the Americas and more.How pirates changed the future of the Americas. We talked with historian Kris Lane during his visit to the University of Arkansas.
The Global Orphan Initiative is a local organization devoted to linking corporations to children in need around the world.
Today is the busiest day of the Christmas shipping season for the U.S. Postal Service, and a group of international dignitaries congregates in Little Rock for an annual conference. Also, the city of Fayetteville Parks and Recreation department devises a plan to hide unsightly utility boxes in some downtown public gardens.
Ahead on this edition of weekend Ozarks: education in the area gets its own report card, and pianist Jim Brickman visits the area.Becca Martin Brown tells us about an exhibit of photographs by Edward Sheriff Curtis that is on display for the final week at Mullins Library on the University of Arkansas campus.
The Walton Family Foundation and the Care Foundation each announce major gifts for the Jones Trust Friday morning.A group of researchers at the University of Arkansas has found a system to store thermal energy that is both more efficient and cost effective than what power plants are currently using. Christina Thomas visits the lab to learn more.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks at Large, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross discusses federal health care reform, the recent endorsement he received from Governor Mike Beebe and more. Plus the complicated world of intellectual property rights and we continue our series on what health care reform might mean for Arkansas. Jacqueline Froelich examines how small businesses could be affected.
The city council will consider buying just more than four acres for the city's fourth fire station. Plus, the Private Option compromises were discussed at the Political Animals Club in Little Rock.
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Open enrollment for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act ends March 31st. And if you don’t have minimal essential coverage of any kind, you will be penalized. And as Jacqueline Froelich reports, how much depends on your income level.
Meanwhile, a push to raise the Arkansas minimum wage, and a separate effort to increase workforce programs get underway in the state. Roby Brock has that story and more in his weekly update.
The Arkansas Agriculture Department has recently revamped its program that connects local farmers to interested consumers, including an upcoming App.
Louis Jordan is one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Still, many Arkansans might not know about their native son. Stephen Koch, the host of Arkansongs, has written a new book about him.
