
Ozarks At Large



We celebrate National Novel Writing Month with a "book and writer" montage of songs and film clips.
- "Paperback Writer" The Beatles
- Nicholas Cage in Adaptation
- "Everyday I Write the Book" Elvis Costello
- The Shining
- Deconstructing Harry
- "Book I Read" Talking Heads
- Romancing the Stone
- "Lady Writer" Dire Straits
- Capote
- "who Wrote the Book of Love" the Montones



Several stories from the past week, as with most weeks, centered around money. We look at some of those stories in this morning's week in review.



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.
UA Fort Smith criminal justice students carry out a successful food drive, the Washington County sheriff wants to contract healthcare for inmates at the county jail, and UAMS and Washington Regional Medical Center announce a partnership to expand a statewide telemedicine network.
“Walcott” by Vampire Weekend
Michael Tilley from The City Wire, who marked its fourth anniversary yesterday, gives us an update on the jobless rate in the listening area, discusses Oklahoma's new “open carry” gun law and more.
Voters in several dry Arkansas counties, this election, will be asked to consider permitting the sale and manufacture of alcohol. One of them is rural Madison County. The controversial issue is not only drawing more voters, it’s providing a big lesson in civic engagement.
In honor of Homecoming at the University of Arkansas, Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers gives us a list of where we can find several pig art installations (part of Ozark Literacy Council's Pigshibition project) around town.
Historians Eric Gellman and Jarod Roll discuss their new dual biography The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America.