Mercy Health used an innovative walking program to become one of the healthiest workplaces in the country.
Ozarks At Large
A roundup of events and news for the next few weeks include an alternative way to deliver a Valentine.
Rural and urban public access trails are trending across America. And a new sector of professional trail building firms have emerged to meet demand. Jacqueline Froelich bundles up and goes cycling on a blustery afternoon in Bentonville, with the founder and foreman of Progressive Trail Design based in Fayetteville.
Roby Brock, from Talk Business Arkansas, talks to Rex Nelson about what 2014 might bring for Arkansas politics.An administrative law judge with the Arkansas Public Service Commission on Friday ordered SWEPCO to proceed on its proposed plan to build a massive new power transmission line through portions of northwest Arkansas. Also, Governor Mike Beebe says that recent cost analyses of operating the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid justifies the program's passage during last year's session of the state legislature. And the state Attorney General's office warns residents about rapid-refund tax providers.
Ahead on Ozarks, a conversation with young adult author An Na. Also, we learn what it takes to become a police officer.
We speak with An Na, author of A Step From Heaven, a book that was awarded the Michael L. Prince Award when it was published a decade ago. Critics and reviewers commended the book's characters for speaking like a child without being too precocious or condescending. The author will speak in Fayetteville later this month.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we visit the kitchen of Jen Lewis, take a spin in a state-run clinic that aids veterans in rural communities, and we meet a recovering opiate addict who has found hope with methadone.
A New state law went into effect this week prohibiting smoking on public college campuses. And as Jacqueline Froelich reports, the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville began enforcing the "Campus Clean Air Act."
"Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" by Merle Travis
In July a dozen teens from Benton County took part in a pottery camp that was a collaboration between the Boys and Girls Club of Benton County, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the University of Arkansas. For more information about the Sugar Gallery in Bentonville, click here.
"I'm on Fire" by Harry Manx and Kevin Breit
When classes begin later this month at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith, two new programs will be included in the course catalog. We talked with Chancellor Dr. Paul B. Beran and provost Dr. Ray Wallace about the additions.For more information click here.
