Veterans

Executive orders impacting federal workers are sowing confusion and frustration among government employees across the country, including VA employees throughout the Ozarks.

One of Arkansas’ largest cities is considering the livelihood of unhoused residents. On today's show, Ozarks at Large's Jack Travis reports on an ordinance that sought to restrict camping on public property in Fort Smith. We’ll also hear about confusion for VA employees from reporter Daniel Caruth. Plus, we trace the history of science through solar and lunar eclipses.

On today's show, how the collaboration of the three largest metro areas in Arkansas brought home $100 million from the EPA. Also, Ed Bethune was a Republican Arkansas Congressman long before the GOP controlled the state. Plus, the difference a Tjuan Byrd Internship can make.

Yesterday on Ozarks at Large, we heard from Soldier Songs and Voices, a program that connects vets through music, performance and songwriting. The group will host a program at the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History tonight. And to preview, we hear more from the session with Soldier Songs and Voices' Lee Haight, Jim Hale and B.R. Lang recorded in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.

On today's show, we learn more about Soldiers Songs and Voices Northwest Arkansas. Also, a NASA scientist explains what Monday’s eclipse can tell us. Plus, discovering math in the everyday.

Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams visited with Richard Ryan, the president of the Springdale Veterans Memorial Organization, and Jeff Vinger, the treasurer of the organization’s board of directors. A planned memorial will use a five-acre field at the park at the corner of North Pump Station Road and Fleming Drive.

On today's show, an ambitious plan for a veteran’s memorial in Springdale. Also, optimism regarding a sustainable future. Plus, we open a thirty-year Ozarks at Large time capsule.

The Siloam Springs chapter of the American Legion is celebrating 105 years of the groups founding with a public party.

Today on The Outline: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week record-setting levels of healthcare and benefits delivered to enrolled Veterans in fiscal year 2023. Also, the Access Fund hosts its annual Climbing Advocacy Conference in Bentonville.

In celebration of Veterans Day this weekend, Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams spoke with Dale Benedict, a Korean War veteran, about a recent trip to the nation's capital sponsored by Honor Flight of the Ozarks.