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Today on The Outline: Arkansas tax revenue is up 4%. Also, the next few days will be the hottest of the year for NWA and the River Valley. Plus, the Walton Family Foundation is investing more than $1 million in a K-12 education initiative.

A film festival can be more than just screening movies. On today's show, we hear about the 5th annual Fort Smith International Film Festival, which celebrates not just art, but culture. We also hear about the 20th season of TheatreSquared with a quiz connected—barely—to each of the season’s productions. Plus, River Valley headlines from Michael Tilley.

On today's show, we hear how city leaders in Cave Springs keep coming back to the same question: how do we grow without losing the qualities that made people want to move there in the first place? Also, a concert on the University of Arkansas campus tomorrow is designed to bring people together. Plus, a rundown of the news from this week in the River Valley with Michael Tilley of Talk Business & Politics.

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This week's review of news with Michael Tilley from Talk Business and Politics includes a projected opening for the U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith, the latest homes sales numbers for the Arkansas River Valley and a remembrance of a pivotal figure in the arts and culture of the region.

Baristas and other workers from three stores voted whether to unionize. Starbucks fought the plan. Now

Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics, says the weeks and months ahead could deliver details about medical expansion in the River Valley, a possible Fort Smith street change and a lawsuit regarding recycling.

Manufacturers like Whirlpool and Rheem brought jobs to the River Valley for years. Now in the city, new arts and humanities initiatives are growing. Ozarks at Large's Anna Pope spent a day in river city to catch a glimpse of the city's emphasis on arts and culture.

Increasing white-tailed deer herds are causing both wonder and worry in towns and cities on the Arkansas Ozarks. We gather insight from state and local deer experts.

Sanura Begum fled Myanmar and now lives in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. Could she ever return to the wooden farmhouse she left behind? Only God knows, she says.