Ozarks at Large

For this week's look back at the news, Michael Tilley from Talk Business and Politics examines ArcBest revenue, a developing legislative primary in the Arkansas River Valley and good news for dogs (and the people they hang out with).

A snowstorm is pushing some weekend events later into 2022. Becca Martin Brown, the features editor with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, gives us the rundown on what might still be happening. She also gives us a welcome glimpse toward the summer.

A new documentary, If This Walk Could Talk, uses the words of University of Arkansas students, faculty, staff and supporters to reflect on the first 150 years of the institution. Larry Foley, the film's producer, says he used the tradition of Senior Walk on campus as a launching point.

On today's show, concerns about the high positivity rate of COVID-19 tests in Arkansas. Plus, the continuing strain on healthcare systems exasperated by COVID, a new edition of Sound Perimeter, and much more.

We start today with snow all over, a week-to-week reduction in new cases of COVID-19, and a record low for Arkansas foreclosures in 2021.

The data provided by Pat Walker Health Center at the University of Arkansas shows that the positivity rate on campus is at 24% for the month of January. While masking is mandated inside buildings and classrooms, the university cannot mandate regular COVID-19 testing on campus. If you have tested positive for COVID-19 in a capacity outside of the Pat Walker Health Center, officials request that you...

The panemic is nearly 23 months old in Arkansas and whenever it ends, effects for people and the state will last. Dr. Jennifer Dillaha, the state epidemilogist, talks with us about the virus, Omicron, long COVID and more.

Mervin Jebaraj, the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the Univeristy of Arkansas, discusses the state of the labor force and more as part of this week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report.

Courtney Lanning says a new, independent movie is silly...but there are cute animals. The Wolf and the Lion is coming to theaters this week.

This week, University of Arkansas music professor Lia Uribe brings us a soundtrack for the snow with music by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Astor Piazzolla and Irving Berlin, featuring performances by Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Astor Piazzolla’s Quintet and Billie Holiday.

On today's show, a conversation with the youngest participant in the Selma March. Plus, weather updates from the National Weather Service, the imagination involved in set design, and much more.

At the top of today's show, we prepare for winter weather across the listening area and an update on COVID-19 data across the state.

Lynda Blackmon Lowery was the youngest participant in the Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, marking her 15th birthday during the event. Her story inspires the musical Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom. Even though the national tour was canceled, patrons of the Walton Arts Center can view a production virtually. We talked with Lynda Blackmon Lowery about telling her story.

Severe winter storm conditions are approaching our region this week. The National Weather Service in Tulsa predicts significant amounts of snow, ice and sleet through Friday morning.

On the most recent episode of Undisciplined, host Caree Banton talks to Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley about cultural competency, how to categorize it, and how to help understand it.

Creating the right set for a theater production takes imagination, cooperation, art, carpentry, and science. We talked with two set designers...Tanya Orellana and Kimberly V. Powers...who have created multiple sets for TheatreSquared.

This week's chronicle of the University of Arkansas' first 150 years is about a pioneering student, James McGahee, whose names was lost and/or forgotten for many decades.

On today's show, how history can be used to explore different perspectives. Plus, the green book advice for African-American travelers in Jim Crow South, including Arkansas, and much more.

Plenty to keep watch on this Tuesday as new numbers related to COVID-19 in Arkansas are released and meteorologists try to understand an approaching winter storm.

This summer the University of Arkansas Humanities Center will host a pair of NEH-supported summer teaching institutes for K-12 teachers from around the country. One is The Local and International Legacies of Nelson Hackett's Flight from Slavery and the other is Pandemics in History, Literature and Today. Deadline to apply is March 1st.

John Brummett, a political columnist with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, considers the next moves in a Supreme Court nomination process. He talks with Roby Brock from our partner Talk Business and Politics.

The "Green Book," an early 20th century travel guide published annually during racial segregation revealed safe places for African-American travelers to stay, dine, as well as vacation. Fayetteville history writer, Dave Edmark researched how the town of Fayetteville, starting back in the 1930's, accommodated Black travelers — his findings published in Flashback, the quarterly journal of the Washin...

The Arkansas Educators Association published a survey of the state's teachers that reveals concerns with covid-19 protocols and student learning loss during the pandemic.

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, is back with a ten-year challenge. She has a list of words that entered our shared vocabulary in, or around, 2011.

On today's show, working to make sure the Holocaust is remembered and taught. Plus, Ivermectin, a prescription anti-parasite drug, is also sold over-the- counter at farm supplies, where people are purchasing it to prevent COVID-19, and much more.