Ozarks at Large

On today’s show, a new law is prompting the creation of the state’s first breast milk bank. Plus the expanding costs of a closed I-40 bridge, the conclusion of the decades-long saga of James Dean Walker, and much more.

On today’s show, applications are now open for the new Arkansas Rent Relief Program. Plus, the Illinois River Watershed Partnership is offering free guidance on broken and failing septic systems. And after 15 long months, the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio at KUAF is back, with our first in-studio music performance by Opal Agafia, and much more.

On today’s show we continue our series of conversations with people leading sessions in an Honors College forum about vaccines with a discussion of how the University of Arkansas prepared to give shots. Plus one of the candidates for governor you may not have heard of, and musical highlights from Tuesday night’s live Dover Quartet concert in today’s new installment of Sound Perimeter with Lia Uribe.

On today's show, according to new research, families worried about having enough food during the COVID-19 pandemic are three times more likely to experience anxiety or depression than those who've lost jobs. Plus, digging deep into COVID-19 impact on poultry workers, and the resort community of Holiday Island established in the 1970s, is now operating as a new city second class, with a new mayor.

On today’s show, ​Good2Grow Farm in Elkins provides fresh organic produce and garden starts for commercial sale, donating a good portion of both to families in need. Plus, the Dover Quartet returns to northwest Arkansas for another Artosphere performance, the long history of confederate monuments and white supremacy, and more.

On today's show, Arkansas health officials are working to identify COVID-19 variants — which are more transmissible. Plus the challenge for restaurants and bars to be fully staffed, we continue the infamous saga of James Dean Walker, and much more.

On today’s show, what literature can tell us about how we’ve behaved toward vaccines in the past. Plus Apple Seeds teaching farm in Fayetteville demonstrates how to turn food waste into lush gardens. Arts Live Theatre is gearing up for summer programming with virtual and in-person camps, and much more.

On today’s show, after much planning, a lynching memorial will be unveiled this weekend in a historic Fayetteville African American cemetery. Plus humanities and vaccines: we continue our series of conversations with instructors of a forum from the University of Arkansas Honors College. We also learn about the Jewish holiday, Shavuot, which begins at sunset this Sunday — and much more.

On today's show, one of the largest paintings in the world is on exhibit in Rogers. Plus how the state is preparing to add 12-to-15 year olds to the list of people eligible for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations, highlights from the Governor's weekly media briefing yesterday, a profile of the very first student to write a masters’ thesis at the University of Arkansas, part of the college's 150th anniversary review — and much more.

On today's news hour: during the month of April, COVID-19 related deaths declined significantly in Arkansas. Plus, an executive emergency mask order first declared during the worst of the 2020 COVID 19 pandemic, recently lifted, has been outlawed by the Arkansas legislature. Our Militant Grammarian hands us words that make things sound worse, the opposites of euphemisms — and more.