Dr. Steven Rosales will be joining the University of Arkansas’ History Department faculty next year. Earlier this fall he came to KUAF to talk about oral history and more.
Ozarks At Large
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.Ahead on this edition of weekend Ozarks: education in the area gets its own report card, and pianist Jim Brickman visits the area.Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, big news from the Jones Center. We'll have a recap of the announcement of a large donation for the center, which was announced earlier this morning. Plus, Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses business and political news from the River Valley. Also, we will announce the winners of the KUAF and Friends Holiday Giveaway.
Michael Tilley from The City Wire talks about announced layoffs at Rheem in Fort Smith and what small business owners think about the future.On this edition of Ozarks: a comprehensive report about education in Northwest Arkansas. We'll talk to two of the people who helped put it together and they'll tell us why the report is intended to produce questions and not necessarily answers. And the Christmas music extravaganza continues. We have previews of this weekend's Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra concert in Bentonville, and a quick conversation with Jim Brickman about his Monday night show in Fayetteville.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government may have to pay millions of dollars to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for damages caused when one of its U.S. Army Corp of Engineers-operated dams chronically flooded one of its large preserves.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.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
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.
Members of Arkansas' congressional delegation are commenting on the announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death and Walmart is donating $1 million in cash and in-kind donations to help with relief efforts in 14 southern states.
Becca tells us about tonight's fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity.
The second annual event will help fund education programs of the Peel Compton Foundation.
Dr. Rosilee Walker Russell discusses the theatre program at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith Academy of the Arts.
The Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter celebrated the grand opening of its new complex with a ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday afternoon.
