College football means more than just bowl games and regional pride. On this week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Repor t Mervin Jebaraj, the interim director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, explains there is a very real economic difference between a good team and a mediocre team.

Kent Bonar, a recluse residing in the forests of Newton County, has spent almost a half century on expedition cataloguing and drawing Ozarks flora in various personal notebooks, as well as in the margins of a historical botanical atlas authored by noted Arkansas botanist Dr. Edwin Smith. The 500-page weathered atlas, now a historical record, has been fully replicated by the University of Arkansas Press and is titled An Arkansas Florilegium: The Atlas of Botanist Edwin Smith Illustrated by

Robert Ginsburg, host of KUAF's Shades of Jazz every Friday night at 10, arrives to our studio in time to tell us about live jazz for the holiday season.

NWA's only Ronald McDonald House is located on the fourth floor of Washington Regional's Women and Infants Center. Since opening its doors in December 2016, the nonprofit has provided a home away from home for hundreds of families with a child in the hospital.

Free Geek Arkansas is a Fayetteville-based organization that repurposes, refurbishes and reuses discarded electronics.

The nonprofit Community Development Corporation of Bentonville and Bella Vista was one of the recipients of a grant from the Walton Family Foundation's Design Excellence Program, which encourages elevating the design of public spaces and buildings. The organization's proposal is the first affordable housing project awarded a grant since the foundation started the program three years ago. The proposal is based on a model of affordable housing that is already operating in Portland, Oregon, which

Pastor Clint Schnekloth, lead pastor at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, considers the word sanctuary. From the physical spot in a house of worship to the concept of protection.

Race violence expert Guy Lancaster, who serves as editor of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, has edited a new a collection of essays titled, “Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas 1840 to 1950." The book is published by the University of Arkansas Press. The work builds on Lancaster's previous monograph, "Racial Cleansing in Arkansas: Politics, Land, Labor, and Criminality." A book signing with the author will take place at Fayetteville Public Library Feb. 4 at 2 p

During the next few days, there are opportunities to see a variety of jazz, folk, and even a few hard rock performances in the region.

Leigh Wood gives us a preview of this Sunday's KUAF Vinyl Hour...a dedication to many of the musicians who died during 2017. The KUAF Vinyl Hour can be heard Sundays at 5 p.m. on KUAF 3.