Roby Brock with our partner Talk Business and Politics asks Rex Nelson and Skip Rutherford for thoughts about the legislature as lawmakers prepare for the regular session. Taxes and medical marijuana are two topics waiting for legislators. MUSIC: "Jeeper Creeper" Sinkane

A Tuesday roundup: a new minimum wage in Arkansas, slightly higher gas prices and turkey hunters eye 2017.

In September 1980, a military incident near the small town of Damascus, Ark. brought the state and the U.S. close to a nuclear disaster. On September 18, an accident during routine maintenance at the Titan Two missile complex caused a fuel leak on the missile, which was topped by a nine-megaton nuclear warhead, which had the destructive power equivalent to nine million pounds of TNT. In the early morning hours of September 19, the missile exploded in its silo, but the warhead did not detonate.

Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business and Politics asks Rex Nelson and Skip Rutherford about some of the biggest political stories of 2016 and what 2017 might bring. MUSIC: "Astral Doom" Michael Giacchino

The Master of Science in Operations Management Program is offering the first interdisciplinary course on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, more commonly known as drones. The 8-week course begins Jan. 17 and the class will meet from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday evenings.

We asked Marty Scarbrough, host of Arkansas Roots on KASU in Jonesboro about some of his favorite Arkansas-connected music recorded in 2016. His show, devoted to Arkansas music and airs six days a week. His list of 2016 Arkansas musicians and bands: Opal Agafia and the Sweet Nothings Susan Erwin Lauren Gray The Silvershakers Barrett Baber Akeem Kemp Sky City Breaking Silence Jeklayn Carr Slackline and Zach Williams.

Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business and Politics , talks to a pair of political observers about what to expect for the Arkansas Works plan with a new White House administration and state legislature taking over in January.

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, has a few phrases she wants to evaporate in 2017.

We asked the host of Of Note, Katy Henriksen, to pick some (emphasis on some) of her favorite music of 2016. Her (some, remember) list includes: Mahan Esfahani, Goldberg Variations Cameron Carpenter, All You Need is Bach Chiara String Quartet, Bartok by Heart Angel Olson, My Woman Weyes Blood, Front Row Seat to Earth Olafur Arnalds, Island Songs The Weekned, Starboy (song) Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies Angele Dubeau & La Pieta, Silence on Joue, Take 2.

Noted medicinal plant author and photographer Steven Foster interprets a pair of elder Gingko trees, the oldest tree species on Earth, growing unheralded in downtown Eureka Springs.