TheatreSquared's 12th season is underway at Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville. The musical Fun Home is about seeing your parents through your own adult eyes and examines sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide and maturity...with deep laughs along the way. We hear from three of the actors and the director of the production.

We speak with Jessica Olson, who is a physical education and health teacher at Springdale's Sonora Middle School, about the kind of role model she hopes to be for the Marshallese students at her school as she is half Marshallese herself, making her the first teacher of Marshallese descent in a school district that has thousands of Marshallese students.

Act 1080 amends the Arkansas Economic Development Commission's 40-year-old program to include women-owned businesses and new diversity spending targets. The new law goes into effect Sept. 1 and certification applications are available here.

A long time Fayetteville recycling advocate has collaborated with Doss Law Firm in Fayetteville to reduce the landfilling of recycled materials.

Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business and Politics talks to Mervin Jebaraj, director for the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas about the persistently low unemployment rate in northwest Arkansas, positive corporate earnings reports, and the economic impact Frank Broyles had during his entire career at the U of A.

Dr. Tammy Post , who operates a medical practice on Willow Springs Road in Johnson has certified more than a hundred new patients for Arkansas medical cannabis cards. She distills the process and discusses the benefits.

The Arkansas Department of Transportation has now added live video feeds of several traffic cameras throughout the state to its travel information site at IDriveArkansas.com.

Our Militant Grammarian Katherine Shurlds returns to help us differentiate between proofreading and copy editing, and she shares some tips on how to quickly cut down on spelling, grammatical and other writing errors.

Dylan Ear l will release on Sept. 5 his new, full-length album, titled "New Country to Be." He recently joined us to talk about the new release, and we hear a debut of two tracks from the album; "Draw the Line" and "Where She Woke Up (On Mornings With Me)."

John Brummett, political writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, talks with Roby Brock, from our partner Talk Business and Politics, about stories involving crime and the the criminals. Arkansas is approaching another execution and a story in Fort Smith is about forgiveness.