Taking up residence in an assisted living facility can be costly for elder Arkansans. Medicaid assistance is available but on a very limited scale. We visit a Fayetteville assisted living facility and get guidance from a geriatric care specialist.

Becca Martin Brown, with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, offers us chocolate, dancing and pottery for Valentine's Day.

This week Timothy Muldoon, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Arkansas, will deliver a public preview of his seminar focusing on cancer. MUSIC: "Come Back" From Indian Lakes

A Monday news roundup includes bills to lengthen sentences for crimes specifically against police officers and strengthen campaign finance disclosures..

Arkansas’s two federally sanctioned refugee resettlement agencies are suddenly busy accommodating vetted and visa-ready refugees after a federal appeals court over the weekend temporarily halted President Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order barring refugees from entering the U.S. We talk with the resettlement director of Canopy NWA.

More than 100 people crammed into the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce's old office Feb. 3 for the group's latest legislative forum. The majority of the audience came to question a bill sponsored by Representative Charlie Collins, which would require colleges to allow faculty and staff with concealed carry permits to carry guns on campus.

On today's program, we speak with Timothy Muldoon, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Arkansas who is studying cancer cells and who will give a lecture later this week titled "Cancer: a Constellation of Disease." Also, we get reaction from Canopy NWA about to this weekend's suspension by a federal appeals court of President Trump’s ban on refugees into the U.S..

In August, The Shook Twins played the Fayetteville Roots Festival, including these two songs from a family concert at the Fayetteville Public Library.

Becca Martin Brown, from the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says the venerable Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is just one option for the weekend.

Richard Milchalski, from the Oklahoma University College of Law, has researched what people, corporations and charities say is most desired when it comes to litigation.