A Tuesday roundup: Arvest is acquiring Bear State Financial, Walmart uses more Uber, and the Naturals begin their final regular-season homestand.

John Brummett, political writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and Roby Brock, with Talk Business and Politics , discuss statues and monuments linked to the Confederacy...and what might happen to them.

The Arkansas Department of Education's seven-member Public Charter School Authorizing Panel, restructured under a new state law, met for the first time last week. The panel is comprised of Dr. Jeremy Owoh – ADE Assistant Commissioner for Educator Effectiveness; Dr. Mike Hernandez – State Superintendent for the Office of Coordinated Support and Service; Kathi Turner – Deputy Director for Career and Technical Education at the Arkansas Department of Career Education; Mike Wilson – Education

The total eclipse wasn't total here, but that didn't dim the enthusiasm for local eclipse watchers.

Becca Martin Brown from the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was making lists about the region. Senior Walk, at the University of Arkansas, is one big list she says is worth exploring.

Katy Henriksen, host of KUAF's Of Note, picks a half-dozen 2017 releases to help us through late summer.

Pioneers Dick Gregory and Sonny Burgess both died recently. We hear part of conversations that they had with Ozarks at Large in the 1990s.

A Monday roundup: a snag for a housing proposal in Fayetteville, an Arkansas Congressman weighs in on President Trump and Arkansas ranks well when it comes to two-year colleges.

Michael Tilley, with Talk Business and Politics , explains how development in the downtowns of Springdale and Fort Smith are similar and are an example of how two metro areas could work together.

University of Arkansas-Fayetteville Housing in collaboration with the Pat Walker Health Center's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is offering free mental health care to dormitory students living on campus. We visit with newly hired clinician, Megan Little, at her office in Maple Hill East residence hall.