Arkansas-based Heifer International - a non-profit addressing poverty and hunger through agriculture - recently became a Savory Gloabal Network hub. The project from the Savory Institute aims to train more people on regenerative agriculture and holistic management as a way to combat climate change. Donna Kilpatrick, Heifer Ranch Manager and Land Steward, says the partnerships will make the 1,200-acre ranch in Perryville a leader in teaching restorative farming in the state.

On today's show, we hear from an emergency room travel nurse who lives in Eureka Springs. Plus, Michael Tilley with Talk Business and Politics looks back on the recent past of news, and much more.

The show starts with another Arkansas record for virus cases, more schools adopting mask mandates, early voting in a special election and an addition to the 2022 AMP season.

For our first conversation of 2022, Michael Tilley discusses a record-breaking home sales year for the Fort Smith Metro and some of the biggest stories covered by Talk Business and Politics last year.

Eureka Springs resident Donna Foster is a licensed emergency room travel registered nurse, fulfilling assignments across the country. Over the past 21 months she's dealt with surges of critically ill patients, from elders, immune compromised and children, showing up at her ERs infected with SARS-CoV-2. She's gone public with her arduous journey, to educate and warn the public to get vaccinated. In Arkansas this winter, nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 hospitalizations involve people who are unvaccinated.

The first non-holiday weekend of the year offers a musical at Walton Arts Center, a multi-band metal show and more. Becca Martin Brown, the features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, gives us a road map for entertainment.

Courtney Lanning says the latest Bruce Willis film, American Siege, doesn't provide anything new, but does provide what you might expect.

This week XNA launched a new look that will be rolled out over the year.

Welcome to 2022! On today's first show of the year, the latest surge in COVID cases and how area hospitals are dealing with Omicron. Plus, the consequences of increased foreign-owned forest, An Officer and a Gentleman rings in the new year on the Walton Arts Center stage, and much more.

Our first show back after a holiday break includes another single-day rise in COVID-19 in Arkansas, Dr. Joe Thompson's plea for schools to take virus precautions, and a new look for the XNA brand.