The Music Education Initiative has a mission: to engage, educate and elevate the next generation of music business professionals. Thursday night at 6:00, at the Faulkner Performing Arts Center, the group is helping host a workshop to explain entry-level skills.

This week's conversation between John Brummett, a political columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and Roby Brock, with our partner Talk Business and Politics, uses a new Talk Business and Politics-Hendrix College Poll as a starting point.

Part of KUAF's The Lunch Hour podcast series is a conversation featuring each month's artist and business owner. In January KUAF's Leigh Wood sat down with singer/songwriter Mia Gjedlum and the owners of Mockingbird Kitchen Chrissy Sanderson and Leigh Helm. The discussion covers topics including creativity and how the unique strength of being a woman can guide one through a pandemic.

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, gives us more origins of English-language idioms.

This weekend the Arkansas Department of Health recorded the 10,000th COVID-19 death in Arkansas. And today the Arkansas Legislature begins the regularly-scheduled fiscal session.

At a price tag of just over $200,000, more than $35 million in medical debt was forgiven and erased for 23,896 Arkansans in all 75 counties. Dr. Sherece West-Scantlebury of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Abby Hughes Holsclaw of Arkansas Asset Funders Network discuss the impact of this debt forgiveness and the future policy plans to prevent this from happening in the future.

We go into our own archives for a 2020 conversation we had with Randy Dixon, from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, about the creation of the McClellan-Kerr Navigations System.

February is American Heart Month . We hear from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute about the causes of heart disease and steps to prevent risk factors.

Courtney Lanning says the new rom-com Marry Me, with Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, may not break new ground...but it is better than most holiday-adjacent romance movies.

We start our show with Governor Asa Hutchinson's call for prison expansion, a citizenship session at Fayetteville Public Library, and the latest COVID-19 information for Arkansas.