Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business and Politics , recently sat down with Arkansas' junior senator to get his thoughts on public placement of statues honoring confederate soldiers. He also gives his prediction on Congressional action on taxes, health care, and more.

Rep. Charlie Collins, R-Fayetteville, who wrote the campus concealed carry bill that allows concealed carry on Arkansas' public college and university campuses, reminds supporters and opponents of the law that realistically there won't actually be any guns on campuses until early next year because concealed carry permit holders still have to get an enhanced permit that will allow them to do that. Arkansas State Police still has to come up with a course for the enhanced permit and the agency has

Becca Martin Brown, with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , gives us a preview of the week. It includes a jazz icon arriving in Fort Smith soon.

Last weekend, 20 musicians from Denton, Texas traveled to a cabin along the Elk River to write and record an album. Denton Film Company is recording the project and will later produce a documentary. Proceeds from the album will benefit a woman with MS.

Becca Martin Brown, with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , suggests we spend at least some of the Labor Day Weekend in Prairie Grove.

Yekwon Sunwoo, the gold medalist at the 2017 Cliburn International Piano Competition, is performing Wednesday night at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. We reached him in Korea to talk about his life since the award and his upcoming concert.

The Berryville School District is asking voters for a 4.45 millage increase to fund $24 million in improvement projects that include building a new high school to replace the current high school campus that is anchored by a main building that was built in 1947. The projects also include a new sports complex, performing arts center and cafeterias. The millage election will be held Sept. 19, 2017.

Michael Tilley, from Talk Business and Politics , discusses tax collections in Fort Smith, the march toward legal marijuana and a new development in Rogers.

In this edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report , we hear from Joel Gardner of Ozark Regional Transit regarding a feasibility study of light bus rapid transit in northwest Arkansas.

I f you're looking for music this weekend, you can catch Willi Carlisle, The Squarshers , or Justin Caleb Driggers for free, or you can pay a little and see Youth Pastor or The Theta Theorem, Drawing Blanks, and more.