The Arkansas Legislature in 2015 passed Act 1178 to provide school vouchers to qualifying students with disabilities to attend private school. The Arkansas Department of Education administers the program, with support from the Walton Family Foundation funded Reform Alliance in Little Rock. Since 2016 eight private schools in Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith region have been approved to accommodate Succeed Scholarship students, including Prism Education Center in Fayetteville.

Leigh Wood gets us ready for a Christmas Eve edition of the KUAF Vinyl Hour. This year she's revisiting (and updating) the first-ever Vinyl Hour Christmas show. The KUAF Vinyl Hour can be heard Sunday evening at 5:00 on KUAF 3.

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, gives us a history of puns. She also delivers a few puns for us to hear.

Dozens of faith leaders across Arkansas have signed a unity statement written by Pastor Clint Schnekloth of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville to express their disappointment about Congress' inaction on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the lowering of refugee admissions levels during a global refugee crisis.

A Tuesday roundup: a new report on Arkansas' working poor, another legislative-related investigation and OzMoMu has a full lineup for next month's music festival in Eureka Springs.

This fall, journalism students at the University of Arkansas reported on veterans, homelessness and suicide. Two of the students, Lindsay Guimont and Kayla Nunez, talked to us about their work. We were also joined by Rob Wells, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas.

A $250,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation has allowed the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design to launch an initiative called Housing Northwest Arkansas, which will include an advanced design studio course, a regional symposium and a design competition. The design studio will be offered during the Spring 2018 semester and will be open to senior-level design students. It will be taught by several instructors, including Anne Fougeron , a renowned architect

We have some Monday numbers that show gas is a bit cheaper in Arkansas, you can make art in downtown Fayetteville (Thursday from 2:00-7:00 at Walker Stone House), and penguins have arrived in southern Missouri.

Becca Martin Brown , with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, offers a preview of the first-ever concert from the Ozark Wind Quartet. The ensemble will be at Stage Eighteen in Fayetteville Thursday night at 6:00.

Two of our Talk Business and Politics partners are with us today: Michael Tilley applauds the hiring of Mervin Jebaraj as new director for the Center for Business and Economic Research Center ad the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas and Roby Brock talks to Mike McCabe, the Chief Growth Officer for Gateway Health about Forever Care. The program, unique to Arkansas, is designed to provide coverage for many of Arkansas' most vulnerable citizens.