Ozarks at Large

On today's program, we get a look back at the week's news with Michael Tilley of Talk Business & Politics, Becca Martin Brown gives us a look ahead to festivals happening this weekend, and Stefan Szabo of National Park Radio stops by the studio to talk about the band's latest album, and to give us a preview before its release later this month.

On today's program, we find out how you can be better prepared for outdoor activities by taking a weekend wilderness first aid course, offered by University of Arkansas Recreation Outdoors. Also, we learn about a new one-man folk operetta that will soon be performed here in northwest Arkansas and around the country by local folksinger Willi Carlisle.

On today’s show, we continue our examination of how health care shapes people's lives. We also continue to consider capital punishment as Arkansas prepares for eight executions. We’ll hear from one of the three living men to be governor during an execution. And the city of Fayetteville continues with a new logo and brand. We learn about the new identity of Experience Fayetteville and more.

On today’s show, while the formal debate over the Affordable Care Act is on pause, at least, in Washington, people are still affected. We begin a two-part series emphasizing the complicated nature of national health care. Plus John Brummett takes a moment to reflect and the good and the bad of the 91st Arkansas General Assembly.

On today’s show, we learn more about the lethal concoction Arkansas uses when executing an inmates. Plus, as environmental activists in Arkansas learn more about new developments on the federal level, they remain vigilant and determined. And the musical legacy of Memphis, Tennessee is well known...today, we learn about that city just across the river.

Tomorrow, an event will be held in Fayetteville that will allow people of different backgrounds to learn more about one another. On today's program, we hear more about the Meet a Muslim Barbecue/Fahad Tasleem Talk. Also, The Show Ponies join us in the studio to help us end the month of March with music.

On today's program, we’ll learn about the spring issue of the Arkansas International, a literary journal launched by the U of A Program in Creative Writing and Translation. Then, a preview of Enclothe, a fashion show designed and created by students in the School of Human Environmental Sciences’ department of Apparel Merchandising and Product Development. We also learn about a new comedy club in Rogers.

A new effort aims to reinvigorate the American Legion Shelton Tucker Craft Post 27 in south Fayetteville. On today's program, we learn about the effort. Also, we learn about an effort to preserve the historic mill wheel at Cane Hill, and we get a tour of one of the newest music venues in northwest Arkansas.

Sequoyah Fuels Corporation has a defunct factory site in Gore, Oklahoma on which the company would like to bury tons of stockpiled nuclear waste. On today's program, we learn how the Cherokee Nation and the State of Oklahoma have prevented that from happening, at least for the time being. Also, our Tech Ambassador returns to give us tips to stay secure on the Internet.

Today, a one-time resident of Arkansas' Death Row talks capital punishment. Damien Echols talks about death row as Arkansas prepares for an unprecedented string of executions. Plus area Meals on Wheels agencies look ahead. And in March, 1969, Muhammad Ali came to Fayetteville: