Today's show launches with news of a big grant for Arkansas' tourism efforts, another approval for statues of Daisy Bates and Johnny Cash, and a really big Christmas tree headed, for one day, to Fayetteville.
Help for Arkansas' Tourism Industry, Approval for Capitol Statues
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