Solar energy installation is on the rise in Arkansas—a solar rich state. But unlike other solar states, Arkansas lacks incentives for solar development as well as utility standards. Add to that, this year, renewable energy advocates will face organized opposition from carbon producers, who don’t want them on the grid.Ozarks At Large
Solar energy installation is on the rise in Arkansas—a solar rich state. But unlike other solar states, Arkansas lacks incentives for solar development as well as utility standards. Add to that, this year, renewable energy advocates will face organized opposition from carbon producers, who don’t want them on the grid.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.
Today's week in review looks back at the school-related news we've aired over the past seven days.
On this edition of Ozarks, the efforts continue to place a statue of General William O. Darby on the edge of Fort Smith. And the work is just beginning to move a Frank Lloyd Wright house from New Jersey to Bentonville. We’ll hear how that task will be done. And Pearl Brick sings inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio…and talks about leaving college to travel to Key West, losing her voice and her recent return to performing.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has a partial list of events for the MLK Holiday.
The Benton County Children's Advocacy Center recently received reaccreditation. Lake Wedington in Washington County and Shores Lake in Franklin County will soon be partially drained to allow the U.S. Forest Service to allow for some winter maintenance. And Bentonville Public Schools begins to think about names and mascots for its second high school that will be built in Centerton.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, as the state prepares for a busy election year, one county makes changes to its polling sites. Plus, a physical fitness event this weekend celebrates two very different causes, and we visit with a founder of the Soweto Gospel Choir, which is performing tonight at Walton Arts Center.
Particia Adamsco-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, with her husband John forty years ago. The story of the founding of the NRDC...and what's happened since...makes up the bulk of the memoir "A Force of Nature" co-written by John and Patricia Adams with George Black.
Thanksgiving means many things...and almost all of them are included in the new cookbook "The Commonsense Kitchen" by Tom Hudgens. There is food, of course, but also essays about why we should be thankful for our food.
"Spreading Spirit" by Calvin Keys
Now that Thanksgiving is here, the holiday-themed events in the region are almost everywhere.
"King Humming Bird" by JJ Grey and Mofro
The publishing house McSweeney's is known for a roster of talented writers and for a passionate approach to the printed word. We talked with a co-publisher of the new volume, "The Art of McSweeney's."
Determining the perimeter of a parcel of land is the complex business of a land surveyor. Several dozen licensed surveyors operate around the four-county area. But Jacqueline Froelich set her sights on quite possibly the region's most rugged survey crew and follows them into the Ozarks outback.
