
Ozarks At Large

The Fort Smith office of the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission is slated for closure sometime in the next year. Entergy has announced plans to lay off hundreds of workers across the country, and some of those layoffs will occur at Arkansas Nuclear One in Russellville. State economic development officials meet with representatives of the Quapaw Tribe regarding archaeological artifacts at the site of the Big River Steel construction site in Osceola.


A sizable grant from the Walmart Foundation will help the NWA Children's Shelter continue to provide essential services for the area's children. The Benton County assessor's and collector's office in Gravette will soon move. The City of Fayetteville installs a charging station for electric vehicles, only the fifth in NWA. And a religious scholar weighs in on Pope Francis's recent comments in Brazil regarding homosexuals.




Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gives us all the details on Trout Fishing in America's newest CD.
In today's week in review, Timothy Dennis looks at the past week's headlines involving money, from federal grants for XNA to tax-free reparations to Mayflower residents from ExxonMobil.


Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, April 25, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the band Elephant Revival stopped by the Frimin-Garner Performance Studio this month to talk about their instruments, their music and their social causes, and to play some music before their concert at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
…some won’t. Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has more information about TheatreSquared’s Tigers Be Still, Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge’s new natural habitat, and more.
Our math expert Dr. Chaim Goodman-Strauss returns to ponder the solution to a puzzle about baseball players, and put us to work on another.
“Poker Face” by Vitamin String Quartet
Dan Craft, special projects reporter for Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, visits KUAF to tell us about his report on convicted sex offenders living in clusters in Fayetteville.
Italian Consul General Hon. Fabrizio Nava visited KUAF’s Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to discuss cooperation efforts between the state of Arkansas and Italy. Nava is in charge of cooperation efforts in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
“Opening Credits” by John Powell
The two cities announced a plan yesterday to address transportation issues that’ll facilitate economic development in the region.
“Fort Smith” by Art Stamper