John Brummett, political writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and Roby Brock, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , discuss political discourse, the job of communicating on behalf of a president and the kerfuffle regarding the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

A Tuesday roundup includes the launch of AR-IMPACT to help fight abuse of opioids and a decline in Arkansas River traffic.

Garrett Hubbard recently moved to Bentonville from Washington, D.C., and a documentary he co-produced will be screened this week at the Bentonville Film Festival. Rikers : Innocence Lost will be screened at 12 p.m. Wednesday and at 10:45 a.m. Friday at the Walmart Museum as part of the Shorts Competition. The documentary focuses on the toll Rikers Island jail takes on the people who are incarcerated there and those who are just held waiting for trial.

The organization Great Schools is recognizing more than 30 schools in Arkansas , including high schools in Fort Smith, Dover, Charleston and Fayetteville, for doing better than the state average when it comes to preparing students for college.

Several nationally ranked teams were in action this weekend around the region.

Becca Martin Brown , with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, gives us details of a one-night only presentation from ArkansasStaged.

Maeve Maddox offers simple tips to become a better speller in her new book, 7 Steps to Good Spelling .

A Monday digest of news includes the rejection of a proposed minimum wage amendment, appeals of a ruling rejecting a voter ID law and new public art in Fayetteville.

More than 80 places called opportunity zones could receive financial help. Roby Brock, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , discusses the matter with Mike Preston, executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

With more people living in west Fayetteville, Farmington, Prairie Grove and Lincoln, the Interstate 49 interchange at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard can get congested. Traffic lights on either side of the overpass at the interchange can compound the problem. The Arkansas Department of Transportation has developed proposals to simplify and speed up the interchange, but residents and business owners in the area were not thrilled about the first two ideas presented to them in 2017. ARDOT went