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Jacqueline Froelich
KUAF Reporter and NPR CorrespondentJacqueline Froelich is an investigative journalist and has been a news producer for KUAF National Public Radio since 1998. She covers politics, the environment, energy, business, education, history, race and culture. Her radio segments have been nationally syndicated. She is also a station-based national correspondent for NPR in Washington D.C., and recipient of eight national and state broadcast awards.
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The new nonprofit Museum of Eureka Springs Art exhibits and conserves art and fine crafts tracing back to the town's late 19th century origins, later becoming a popular 1940s artists colony, followed by the establishment of dozens of 1970s counter-cultural studios, to today's current creatives calling Eureka home.
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On today's show, we meet the new dean of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, an NIH grant will help inspire enthusiasm for STEM education in northwest Arkansas, and a consulting firm wants to help connect community and economy.
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Construction is almost complete on Arkansas' first certified passive house. The super-insulated, ultra-energy-efficient home will set a new industry standard for sustainable housing in the state.
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On today's show, building energy efficient houses in northwest Arkansas. Also, artists helping artists. Plus, a dip into the Ozarks at Large archives to recall what was happening in July 18 years ago.
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A proposed $300 million private industrial wind power plant named Nimbus, the first like it in Arkansas, is under development across 9,500 acres of mountain ridges in southeastern Carroll County. Colorado-based Scout Clean Energy plans to erect 46 giant turbines—among the tallest in the nation—on privately leased land to capture 180MW of high-altitude wind power to sell out of state. A majority of county officials welcome the new industry, but thousands of county residents do not.
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On today's show, officials in Carroll County are in favor of a pending wind energy plant— But residents remain skeptical. Also, a trip through the Pryor Center archives for the Tontitown Grape Festival. Plus, we hear name suggestions for an automatic book sorter at the Bentonville Public Library.
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If you've noticed your home insurance rates creeping up in cost, you are not alone. Insurance providers across the country and in Arkansas are reckoning with increasing catastrophic storm damage as well as inflating repair costs.
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On today's show, we discuss property insurance rates being on the rise and the impact that natural disasters are having on those costs. Also, celebrating the Arkansas tomato. Plus, the relationship between transformation and art.
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Researchers at the University of Missouri - Columbia have documented historical evidence of widespread and recurring wildfires in the Ozarks by examining pine stumps and snags, some over 500 years old. The findings have been assembled into a multimedia presentation titled, “Fire in the Ozarks: Burning by humans has shaped the landscape,” published by the Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Consortium and hosted by ArcGIS StoryMaps.
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On today's show, using data, photos, and videos to map historical wildfires in the Ozarks. Also, a multi-million dollar gift to Hendrix College. Plus, celebrating the tenth anniversary of Valley Inn.