Ozarks at Large

On today’s show, three rehabilitation design proposals for Willow Heights, a public housing complex, go on display at the Fayetteville Public Library as the Fayetteville Housing Authority finalizes its five-year plan.Plus, more than a dozen healthcare and public health agencies organize a community survey where residents can anonymously express their health needs and Olympic gold medalist and author, Scott Hamilton, speaks with us ahead of his visit to the Jones Center in Springdale.

On today's show, according to an old law, dancing on Sundays if forbidden in Fort Smith. Plus, a Missouri author chronicles what it was like to live in the Ozarks before the Civil War and a local musical duo discusses writing a song that might be featured on Netflix's Ozark .

On today's show, public high schools across Arkansas will no longer be required to offer a journalism course as an elective after the Arkansas Board of Education and the Arkansas Legislative Council both voted to support changing the state's school accreditation standards. Plus, a discussion about how children are faring in Arkansas based on the latest figures from an annual report done by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and we visit the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History as the staff gets ready to

On today's show, why more investors, both big and small, are setting their sights on Emma Avenue in downtown Springdale. Several major announcements this month point to a burst of interest in a downtown that has sat largely empty for several decades. Plus, a cancer diagnosis serves as inspiration for a songwriter and novelist who will be stopping in Fayetteville during a countrywide tour and a Bentonville brewery takes its support of local musicians a step further by starting a record label.

On today's show, Tuberculosis, an ancient bacterial infectious disease imported by New World colonists to what is now known as the Republic of the Marshall Islands, continues to plague Marshallese in the RMI as well as in places like Arkansas where islanders are legally allowed to migrate. Plus, a discussion of the legal battles surrounding legalized medical marijuana in Arkansas and the immigration crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border and a conversation with a local author about his latest novel

An exotic species of tick, which hails from East Asia, is found in Benton County, Arkansas. Local entomologists say they are keeping an eye on it, but remind Arkansans endemic ticks are a lot more problematic and transmit most of the pathogens that infect people in the Natural State. Plus, a new book contextualizes the largest massacre of African Americans in Arkansas, as the debate over where the Elaine Massacre should be memorialized continues.

On today’s show, a look at the future of the Lake Bella Vista Dam. Plus, we hear from an advocate for Fayetteville to become a Dark Sky City. And, the Militant Grammarian discusses one of her biggest pet peeves.

On today’s show, Sebastian County examines ways to keep non-violent offenders with mental health issues out of jail and in treatment. Plus John Brummett examines suggestions to keep a stronger ethical accounting of elected officials in Arkansas. And, we get an examination of our Ozark resident opossums.

On today's show, we hear highlights from a show about water we recorded last week in front of a live audience at Walton Arts Center. We hear from conservationists about the future of water and about local water issues. Plus, Still on the Hill gives us a selection of water-themed music.

On today’s show, we get details about an impaired pathologist at the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks. Plus, we learn of an effort to build affordable housing in Eureka Springs. And we hear about the evolution of the Homegrown Music and Mountain Sports Festival.