Dave Baer made the drive from near Ponca to the Carver Center for Public Radio for his first visit to Ozarks at Large. He talks about writing songs and plays a couple as well.
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Becca Martin Brown, with Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has the plans for Mardi Gras in northwest Arkansas all mapped out.
Arkansas has had high rates of teen pregnancy for decades, but there is reason for some optimism for the future.


Legislators may be getting closer to a compromise on the state's private option, and former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner appears in court for mail fraud charges.



Leslie Yingling with Diversity Affairs at the University of Arkansas has our final story of compassion during Fayetteville's Compassion Month.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, April 7, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the man who has been intimately connected with the Nobel Peace Prize for the past quarter-century talks about the process for selecting a recipient and some of the controversies associated with the honor.
Dr. Feng-Zhen Teng, professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas, has discovered a method to measure the temperature of rock formation with the help of magnesium isotopes. He says the process of rock formation is not very different from, say, baking a cake.
World's leading trumpeters Rex Richardson and Allen Vizzutti talk about their efforts to manage their performing schedules along with their practice schedules.Click here for more of the conversation with trumpeters Rex Richardson and Allen Vizzutti.
Jacqueline Froelich travels to Huntsville where Sharon Niehues crafts her own herbal soaps and salves at a place called Redbud Garden. She markets her soaps at the Fayetteville Farmers Market and Ozark Natural Foods.
Changes await Fort Smith. Michael Tilley from www.thecitywire.com has the details.
"Blues on the Corner" by Turtle Island String Quartet