Roby Brock talks to the Dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, to talk about Arkansas' election year.Ozarks At Large
Roby Brock talks to the Dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, to talk about Arkansas' election year.The Arkansas House yesterday finally secured the required supermajority to pass the appropriations bill for the Private Option expansion of Medicaid. And, state revenue comes in below forecast for February.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, Davy Carter, Speaker of the Arkansas House, talks with Roby Brock about the continuing process to decide funding for the Private Option. And Jim DePriest, a deputy Attorney General for Arkansas, explains how his office combats potential fraud against seniors.One of the country's best songwriters comes to Walton Arts Center.
Dayton Castleman's multi-media installation titled "Coin" will soon be on display at Fort Smith Regional Art Museum.
Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, talked to House Speaker Davy Carter this weekend about the continuing negotiations over funding the private option.The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department continues to deal with iced-over highways across the state, while an annual tree-planting event gears up for this year's event set for this weekend.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, several Arkansas towns have been identified by the University of Arkansas to participate in a sustainability report card program. We speak with Michelle Halsel, managing director of the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas to find out about the program. Plus, the idea of Southern Art History; how we talk about it depends on how we define it.Friday the University of Arkansas hosted a science and engineering fair with participants from school districts in fifteen surrounding counties.
Roby Brock has plenty of financial numbers for Arkansas-based businesses in his regular weekly recap.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, how members of clergy, support organizations and a T-shirt maker are helping spread relief to towns devastated by Sunday's tornadoes, and information about how anyone else can aid recovery efforts.
Rita Harvey, one of the cast members of Next to Normal, and Amy Herzberg, the director of the T2 production, came to the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to talk about the production in mid-run and provide a musical sampler from the play.
Click here for more information about the special Wednesday night performance hosted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Psychiatric Research Institute. For more information about the musical and T2, click here.
Jack Fussell is running from coast to coast to raise money and awareness for Alzheimer's disease.
Tom Vilsack, the country's Secretary of Agriculture, was the esteemed speaker of yesterday's Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture at the University of Arkansas. He took the opportunity to speak candidly with the standing room only crowd about short-, medium-, and long-term ag public policy goals, and about opening lines of communication.
A Fort Smith homeless agency halts its plans to move to a homeless campus until certain criteria are met. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas takes us on a tour of the organization and potential campus.
Southwestern Electric Power Company plans to string an extra high voltage transmission line across Benton and Carroll Counties to better serve the region’s growing electrical needs. But a group of affected residents have organized “Save the Ozarks” to block the transmission corridor.
"The Next Step" by Kurt Rosenwinkel
