Steve Barnes discusses farm aid, highways, higher education, casinos, and the transformation of state government with panelists Alison Williams, Wesley Brown, Christopher Housenick and Lance Turner.

(Bi-, Tri-, Multi-Lateral) Our state and the world, high-level negotiations with Arkansas jobs and Arkansas pocketbooks in the balance. (Imports and Exports) From Fort Smith to Forrest City and points in between, the impact of the trade and tariff dispute. (Commodities, Consumers) What can the Arkansas shopper expect at the checkout counter if there's no real resolution? (Means of Production) And if the Arkansas farmer is taking it on the chin, so is the Arkansas manufacturer. The Natural State and the uneasy, unnatural state of global commerce.

Steve Barnes discusses Arkansas's economy, Little Rock's troubles, and farmers having too much water with panelists Randy Veach, Dr. Mark Cochran, Rebekah Hall, Sarah Kellogg, and Wesley Brown.

(Execution Protocol) After a week of testimony challenging Arkansas's lethal injection procedure, the state's experts take the stand in rebuttal. (958.8 Mil) Wrong, Mr. Eliot, April was the kindest month in history for the Arkansas treasury. But will May bring flowers? (Medical Marijuana) Yet more tax revenue should begin arriving next week with the arrival of a new and legitimate retail store. (Investment, Expansion) But first, more conventional economic expansion, a spirited first quarter in Arkansas carries into April. Can we expect still more?

Can Arkansas's capital city remake itself in the image its new mayor envisions? And capital punishment in Arkansas, the execution protocol is again being tested before a federal district judge. And marijuana, how will the state supervise, and enforce, a newly legal medication? I'm Steve Barnes, those stories and more on the latest edition of Arkansas Week.

(No Laughing Matter) Time was we made light of it, every kid got it - it was part of growing up. (Long-term Impact) Then we learned what it could do, and that it didn't have to be. (Vaccine Vacillation) But times and attitudes changed amid a flood of suspicion and misinformation... (The Renewed Mortality) ...and so now it's back, in Europe, in Africa, in the U.S. and, very possibly, in Arkansas. Measles and its threat.

Steve Barnes reviews this years legislative session, discusses personal and corporate tax cuts, the new state budget, and the approval of Gov. Hutchinson's reorganization of state government with panelist Rep. Vivian Flowers (D), Rep. Matthew Shepherd (R), and Sen. Jonathan Dismang (R).

(Medicaid and the Court) It's the judicial decision the governor feared and for his administration the timing could scarcely be worse. (Appropriation Anxiety) What now the outlook for his Arkansas Works program without a work requirement? (Scholarships as Subsidy?) Public money for private schools, will stiff opposition from the education establishment block the legislation? (Executive Reorganization) But first, assigning 45 agencies to 15 Cabinet officers, and the 2,000 page, 20 pound bill that would do it. An update on the governor's plan to restructure his government.

(Tax Relief, Tobacco Remorse?) A late-session income tax bill clears the Senate in a squeeze but can the House be persuaded? (Collections from Clicks?) A corporate tax cut with a revenue neutralizer, has the time come for an Internet retail sales tax? (Asa, EPA, Not So Fast) Animal waste and water quality, a political and environmental contest in the fields and at the Capitol. (Residents in Residence) But first, what medical educators believe could be a major step in keeping doctors in Arkansas, and putting them where they're most needed.