Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: Roby Brock talks with the incoming Speaker of the Arkansas House about the agenda for the General Assembly when it convenes next month. And a new start-up in northwest Arkansas with an unusual spelling: T-T-A-G-G is making its way in the digital world.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: Roby Brock talks with the incoming Speaker of the Arkansas House about the agenda for the General Assembly when it convenes next month. And a new start-up in northwest Arkansas with an unusual spelling: T-T-A-G-G is making its way in the digital world.The Little Free Library project has small, neighborhood libraries on street corners in Fayetteville, Africa, Australia and almost everywhere else.
A collection of University of Arkansas graduates is making headway in the digital world. Their new company, TTAGG, helps clients understand what their customers are saying about them.
Roby Brock from Talk Business sits down with Davy Carter, the next Speaker of the Arkansas House. They talk about Medicaid expansion, cooperation between parties and more.Bentonville residents can expect a wastewater rate increase in a few months thanks to a new ordinance enacted by the Bentonville city council. Also, a winter meteor shower will light up the night sky, especially during the next few days.
Ahead on Ozarks: An update on immigration reform,an update on the grassroots documentary project called "Directing Democracy," and our tech ambassador is back with a list of new apps for your smartphone and tablet.Top Arkansas immigrant civil rights activist Mireya Reith, executive director of the Arkansas United Community Coalition, explains what we should expect regarding reform, at both the federal and state level.
A recycling pilot program in Fayetteville stands to expand next year, the Applied Sustainability Center at the UA in Fayetteville wants Arkansans to focus on sustainable energy in the state, and one of Arkansas's congressional delegation is optimistic that Congress will avoid the fiscal cliff.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, author Adam Vines stops by the studio to discuss his first collection of poetry titled “The Coal Life.” Also, we learn more about a group of researches at the University of Arkansas who have developed a thermal energy storage system.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Ahead on this edition of weekend Ozarks, music made with bedsprings and sawblades, and we learn the history behind a lake in Benton County, and it isn't Beaver Lake.
The traveling exhibit called Hunger U is on the University of Arkansas campus this week.
at end of show: “Route 66” by John Pizarelli
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announces that the state will appeal a federal judge's decision that struck down Arkansas' 12-week abortion ban. Plus, the state's surgeon general is touting greater transparency after the federal government releases data on national Medicare claims.
"All Hell Broke Loose" by Charlie Hunter
An undocumented Mexican college student is being detained in a San Diego jail for illegally crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, the case is drawing attention here in Arkansas because Marisol Soto is from Pea Ridge. (Photo: Mariana Soto, left, with sister Marisol)
Roby Brock has the Arkansas political and business news from the past seven days.
A quick glance at events in the region includes the departure of a mainstay at the Bentonville Public Library
"Frisco Blues" by John Lee Hooker
