The Arkansas Justice Collective was formed in 2015 in Springdale to help the state's immigrants and refugees with legal matters pertaining to residency. The group recently released its annual report. We speak with the organization's founder and director Stephen Coger to learn more about the report.

In early February, violinist Er-Gene Kahng and pianist Nathan Carterette will hold a concert in the Honors Student Lounge in Gearhart Hall on the U of A campus. The concert program will include works by Arkansas native Florence Price, her contemporary Irene Britton Smith, and from Quentin Kim. We speak with Kahng to learn more about the Feb. 5 concert.

Our Militant Grammarian Katherine Shurlds returns to give us a refresher course on silent letters. She helps us navigate words with lost consonants such as "listen," "black," "knock," and more.

This week's live music preview includes a variety of music throughout the region. Wednesday, Jan. 23 Jeff Kearney, Monk is King at Stage 18 (Fayetteville) - FREE, 8 p.m. Turkuaz at George's Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) - $15 adv, $18 day of, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, January 24 Sauced Case, Audiosocial, Jed Harrelson, 2Shock at George's Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) - $8 adv, $10 day of, 8:30 p.m. Jake Noren at Bike Rack Brewing Co. (Springdale) - 7 p.m. Jamie Wolfe and the Wranglers at Harry's

A report released last week suggests northwest Arkansas is losing health care dollars from people leaving the area for treatments and from people not coming to the region for specialty care. We speak with Paul Umbach, one of the report's authors, and with Nelson Peacock, CEO of the Northwest Arkansas Council, about the findings and about how the region could improve its health care economy.

State Senator Bob Ballinger of Berryville has proposed changes to some aspects of the state's minimum wage law, approved by voters in November. Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business and Politics, speaks with political writer John Brummett, about the chances of the proposal's success, and about the ongoing federal government shutdown, which stretches into its fourth week.

Rates for recycling and trash disposal will increase this spring in Fayetteville. We speak with city waste reduction officials to learn how the increased fees are aimed at increasing services and decreasing the amount of waste taken to the landfill.

Michael Tilley from Talk Business and Politics returns to catch us up on some news stories of the past week. We hear about a seven-figure donation to help the Boys and Girls Club of Fort Smith renovate one of the older parks in the city, a new city-wide billing system for the city of Fort Smith and more.

A report commissioned by the Northwest Arkansas Council suggests $3.4 billion could be added annually to the region's healthcare economy by 2040. Today we hear a bit about the report and how officials with Tripp Umbach, the firm that prepared the report, came to their conclusions.

"Women Like Us" profiles women in the U.S. and in Africa who are dedicated to making societal improvements. The Bentonville Film Festival Foundation will screen the film at 6 p.m. Monday at Skylight Cinema as part of the foundation's monthly Monday Movie series. We speak with the film's director to learn more about the documentary.