A session Monday in Bentonville will give potential candidates and campaign workers an idea of what it takes to run for office.

A happy hour Thursday evening in Fort Smith will allow people to see designs for the United States Marshals Museum and some new art.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Office offered tours of its existing jail facility, which was built in 1974, to make its case for a new facility, which requires approval from voters in a special election Aug. 8. The proposed half-cent sales tax increase would cover the costs of building a new jail and the operations and maintenance that would follow. The current jail has enough room for 36 beds, but regularly houses an average of 50 inmates a day. The 5th Judicial District Criminal Detention

Our Militant Grammarian takes on double negatives. MUSIC: "Ain't No Stopping us Now" McFadden and Whitehead

We meet a couple from Bentonville who hosted a Muslim teenager as an exchange student during last year's election.

A new poll suggests many Arkansas voters are unsure of efforts to alter the Affordable Care Act. John Brummett, from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette talks about the matter with Roby Brock from our partner Talk Business and Politics.

A Tuesday roundup: the Fayetteville Planning Commission tables a decision, the Fort Smith airport receives a grant and a possible sentence for the man thought to have destroyed the Ten Commandments.

Bentonville city leaders will have to decide what to do with the dam at Lake Bella Vista, which was declared failed in 2008. The city is considering removing and rebuilding the dam, but a local nonprofit organization called Friends of Little Sugar Creek would like to see the dam gone for good. Friends of Little Sugar Creek members say restoring the stream would eliminate the algae bloom problem and reconnect upstream and downstream fish populations. The director of river restoration at the

Gerry Sloan's new collection of poems, Crossings , considers the past and present.

Becca Martin Brown, with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, offers up outdoor activities for a hot (but not *as* hot) week.