At the top of our show today: slowly the number of people hospitalized in Arkansas with COVID-19 is declining, Arkansas' prison population is high, and the Name, Image and Likeness movement in college athletics is of interest in Bentonville.

Extreme weather in 2021 — a prolonged winter vortex, heavy spring rains, high summer heat and drought — is “scorching” certain hardwoods in Arkansas. Forest Specialist Chandler Barton with the Arkansas Department of Agriculture - Forestry Division discusses the scope of the phenomenon.

This week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal includes a conversation with a democrat who wants to be Lt. Governor.

There are plenty of opportunities to see tribute acts, cover bands, nationally touring acts and original music throughout the region this weekend.

Cop Shop is a crime thriller with roots in the grindhouse movie movement of decades ago. Courntey Lanning, a film critic with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says there are some clever touches...and some bad, cliched elements.

Lia Uribe, associate professor in the University of Arkansas Music Department, explores the saxophone this week with music by Shelley Washington, Libby Larsen and Petronio Alvarex, and featuring saxophonists Eric Troiano and Antonio Arnedo.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church pastor Clint Schnekloth, and Lisa Stuart, a trans activist with NWA Equality in Fayetteville will appear on a national panel of experts September 30th discussing spiritual violence — classified as an individual who uses spiritual or religious beliefs to hurt, scare or control others. A current example is right-wing Christian politicians in the U.S. enacting strict laws terminating LGBTQ+ civil rights. Episcopal priest Rev. Elizabeth Edman, author of Queer Virtue, is facilitating two free broadcast forums on the subject September 23rd as well as the 30th at 5pm central. Pre-registration is required.

On today's show, Rolling Hills Baptist Church hosts a Marshallese Pentecostal congregation that doesn’t have a permanent church home. Plus, the conclusions of a new report from the Walton Family Foundation about increasing the amount of affordable housing in northwest Arkansas, and much more.

At the top of our show today, the latest virus numbers in Arkansas, a proposal to spend millions upgrading head Start in the Cherokee Nation, and artists named for the Walton Arts Center's next visual arts exhibition.

When the pastor at Rolling Hills Baptist Church learned that members of the new First Marshallese Pentecostal Church of Fayetteville were in need to space to worship on Sundays, he opened his fellowship hall.