On today's show, building up a talent pool for the entertainment industry in northwest Arkansas. Plus, lessons learned from two years of a pandemic, a visit from our militant grammarian, and much more.
The top of our show includes Governor Asa Hutchinson's address to a joint session of the Arkansas Legislature and the virus updates from state deparments of health in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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.
On today's show, the cost of debt to Arkansans. Plus, the causes and preventative steps for heart disease, a conversation with Randy Dixon of the Pryor Center, and much more.
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.
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.
On today's show, Arkansas Children’s and the Omicron surge. Plus, an Oklahoma group, Save the Illinois River, claims insufficient wastewater treatment in northwest Arkansas threatens the watershed shared by both states, and much more.
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.
Tourism spending and air travel in Arkansas have picked up, but are not back to pre-pandemic levels. Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , covers these matters and more.
After the all-time high of 46 COVID-19 patients last month, nearly double that of the previous peak last June, Arkansas Children's Hospital's Executive Vice President Dr. Rick Barr recounts how staff navigated the high and the trends they observed in pediatric cases.
The northeastern Oklahoma conservation group Save the Illinois River claims inadequate wastewater treatment in northwest Arkansas threatens downstream water quality in the river shared by both states. We hear from STIR cofounder Ed Brocksmith about the group's concerns and solutions, and Heath Ward, executive director of Springdale Water Utilties and a vice chair on the Northwest Arkansas Conservation Authority .
Every year Becca Martin Brown, the features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , reminds us that Valentine's Day is approaching. She does so this year with ideas for outings around the holiday.
There is continued discussion about the possibility of new testing regarding evidence related to the West Memphis 3 case. Brandon Tabor, with our partner KASU , and George Jared, with Talk Business and Politics, get us up to date.
On today's show, the growth of the Hispanic Women’s Organization of Arkansas means more opportunities for young people to further their education. Plus, Mitch Walking Elk offers a preview of his virtual visit with the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville and much more.
Oklahoma's total case count of COVID-19 now exceeds 1,000,000. Both Oklahoma and Arkansas report another significant increase in fatal cases of the virus.