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Arkansas is ranked 48th in average teacher starting salary, according to the National Education Association. Governor Asa Hutchinson has said that teacher pay has been one of his priorities since running for governor in 2014. But, he ultimately decided to not add the proposal of raising teacher pay to the agenda for the upcoming special session regarding the $1.6 billion surplus.

This week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report includes a conversation with State Senator Jonathan Dismang about what to expect in next month's special session of the Arkansas Legislature.

On today's show, an increase of teens and women at crisis pregnancy centers since the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Plus, the co-creator of Def Jam Poetry is coming to Crystal Bridges, State Senator Jonathan Dismang discusses the special session, and much more.

Michael Tilley, from Talk Business and Politics, helps us keep track of traffic on the Arkansas River Valley, discusses the next phase for Fianna Hills and explains a decades-long career that's ending for a legend in Fort Smith.

Becca Martin Brown, the features editor for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says the Rogers Historical Museum this weekend educates us about the Civil War here and the one-time mega-business of apples in Rogers.

The exhibit, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is coming to a close soon. But not before a packed weekend of events tied to the art.

On today's show, teacher pay in Arkansas. Plus, new music, live music, a DIY music festival, and much more.

Dirt is staple of long road trips on the side of vehicles, the grime collecting on shoes and is used under projects such as driveways and buildings in Northwest Arkansas. Residents voicing environmental and safety due to some quarries is a reccuring conversation in public meetings. This material is common in the region and dump trucks carry tons of dirt daily to meet the area's demand.

A team from the Springdale-based Marshallese Educational Initiative traveled to Vienna last month to participate in a nuclear weapons ban conference hosted by the United Nations.

Suzanne Woods Fisher often sets her novels in Cape Cod, Pennsylvania and Maine. Her latest novel, The Sweet Life, serves as an inspiration for her talk Monday evening on July 18th at Fayetteville Public Library about the history of ice cream.