
Ozarks At Large

Yesterday, Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration officials yesterday outlined Governor Mike Beebe's budget priorities to state legislators. Funding for the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid could be in danger after a special election for state Senate yesterday. And the University of Arkansas Fort Smith is in the process of developing its its first Master's degree program.



Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says there is still more to be learned about the Stieglitz collection at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Though Arkansas is still 30% above the rest of the nation, the state is finally seeing declining rates when it comes to new lung cancer diagnoses and moralities due to lung cancer. We hear from Dr. Gary Wheeler with the Arkansas Department of Health.


Sabrina Billings, an Assistant Professor with the department of African and African American Studies at the University of Arkansas, has spent years researching her new book Language and Globalization in the Making of a Tanzanian beauty Queen.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, March 31, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, a preview of an upcoming grief seminar for bereaved parents. Also, Fort Smith releases an annual report on its homeless community.
Christopher Spencer, the publisher of ozarksunbound.com, talks to Kyle Kellams about a flurry of local issues that have flared in recent days.
The Northwest Arkansas Tobacco-Free Coalition received more than $100,000 in grants at a press conference yesterday.
We learn that a concert piano recital has changed over the years and there are different ways to open such a program.
“In the Upper Room” by Philip Glass
Becca Bacon Martin previews Bikes, Blues and BBQ and offers suggestions for some quieter entertainment.