Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, says many of our idioms may cause confusion for younger people since the phrases don't really relate to 21st-century living.

Arkansas and other southern states — where COVID-19 vaccination rates are low — this summer are ground zero for Omicron subvariant infections. Dr. Robert Hopkins, a professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and Chief of Internal Medicine at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, provides insight and guidance about this new outbreak.

This week's collection of archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History helps us examine how Arkansas has weathered past recessions.

Arkansas PBS is helping make sure young viewers continue to learn in between school years with Rise & Shine. The mix of national and state educational programming includes input from several Arkansas Teachers of the Year.

Back for another summer, the Chamber Music on the Mountain Summer Festival provides eight concerts (two of them free) in six different venues and is centered on Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville.

Arkansas is ranked 48th in average teacher starting salary, according to the National Education Association. Governor Asa Hutchinson has said that teacher pay has been one of his priorities since running for governor in 2014. But, he ultimately decided to not add the proposal of raising teacher pay to the agenda for the upcoming special session regarding the $1.6 billion surplus.

Michael Tilley, from Talk Business and Politics, helps us keep track of traffic on the Arkansas River Valley, discusses the next phase for Fianna Hills and explains a decades-long career that's ending for a legend in Fort Smith.

Dandelion Heart is releasing new music today. We asked two of the four members, Korey McKelvy and Lacy Hampton, about the song Mountain Home.

Jake Hertzog and Daniel Champagne will share the bill Sunday night at Roots HQ.

Becca Martin Brown, the features editor for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says the Rogers Historical Museum this weekend educates us about the Civil War here and the one-time mega-business of apples in Rogers.