Ozarks At Large

The Arkansas House yesterday defeated a bill that would continue funding for the state's Private Option Medicaid expansion, a recently established organization is encouraging more political participation for women in Arkansas, Fayetteville moves forward with its partnered purchase of land on Mt. Kessler, and Ft. Smith aldermen oppose seeking fines from Whirlpool.

As an African-American college freshman in 1958, Dorothy Marcy thought treatment she received was discrimination. Fifty years later she learned it was for her protection. More on Compassion Fayetteville can be found here.
The issue of net neutrality is back in the news and we ask our tech ambassador for some of the basics.
You can go to Russia to watch Olympic curling. You can go to Springdale to actually play.
The town of More Tomorrow, Belize could have a safe source of water soon with help from students at the University of Arkansas.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville may be a secret for now, but it won't be for long. We'll explain why, and we find out how distance education will have a larger footprint in the University of Arkansas School of Law next fall.
Dr. Joe Thompson, Arkansas' Surgeon General, spent nearly an hour Tuesday in Fayetteville discussing what coming health care reform could mean for the state. On this edition of Ozarks, some necessary background on what brought health care in the United States and Arkansas to where we are now.
"Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairies" by Don Byron
Local high school cross country coaches who attended a press conference in Fayetteville yesterday were the recipients of money raised from the annual race.
More information is available at chilepepperfestival.org.
As we continue our series on the University of Arkansas' efforts to be more sustainable, we learn how leftover cooking oil is being reused as fuel.
As a result of I-540's construction, the traffic on old highway 71 has been reduced dramatically and many of the businesses that thrived on that traffic have closed, but not all of them. As Luke Gramlich reports, one business is still welcoming visitors.
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"Okra Dokey" by Joe Goldman