Ozarks at Large

On today’s show, Walmart workers are now able to enroll in college, paying just a dollar a day, under a new education benefit. Plus, the Fayetteville Public Library expansion takes another step toward reality. And the case for Sherm Lollar, Arkansas baseball all-star, to be in the Hall of Fame.

On today’s show, how and why some are trying to reduce the use of a certain plastic item in northwest Arkansas. Plus, a workforce program at UAFS is giving high school students concurrent credit while studying fields like robot automation.

On today’s show, an Arkansas Drought Council is forming to monitor and prepare for extreme dry conditions around the state. Plus, after surviving emergency brain surgery, Pat Ryan Key is ready to release some new music, and we find things to do on during a midsummer’s weekend and more.

On today’s show, we hear about concerns for the health of the Mulberry River. Plus, research based in Bentonville is based in concern for small towns in the middle of the United States. That’s part of this week’s Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report. And we hear from Langhorne Slim, a songwriter concerned that we might lose hope.

On today’s show, the Northwest Arkansas Council wants more funding to go toward university research and development to make the region stronger. Plus, an old look is new again on the Fayetteville Square, and John Brummett tries to decipher what may be next for Arkansas Works.

On today’s show, the VA discusses the recent acknowledgment that a former staff pathologist worked while impaired, and we get a report from yesterday’s town hall. Plus we get a report from last night’s meeting about public housing in Fayetteville, and John Brummett gives his thoughts Issue One that would cap attorney fees and damages on lawsuits in Arkansas.

On today’s show, we hear about the beginning of the end of the City Hospital in Fayetteville. As one institution is removed, another, the Fayetteville Public Library, moves closer to expansion. And, the Bella Vista Public Library is getting closer to starting construction on its expansion project. Plus, new rules regarding adoption information in Arkansas will soon go into effect.

On today's post-Independence Day episode, we revisit recent conversations about immigration and tariffs. First, an immigration attorney explains asylum and immigration rules followed by a discussion of the possible impacts tariffs could have on Arkansas farmers and manufacturers.

On today’s show, toking and toting is federally prohibited in Arkansas even though the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act and greatly expanded handgun carrying laws went into effect around the same time. Plus, a roundup of all 4 th of July and non-4 th of July entertainment across the area.

On this Independence Day episode of Ozarks at Large, we continue a Fourth of July tradition and listen back to our favorite in-studio music performances of the first six months of 2018.