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On today's show, paying for back-to-school supplies. Plus, Arkansas Senator john Boozman on regulating cryptocurrency, what to expect in this special session, and much more.

This past weekend parents, guardians and students shopped for school supplies in the nation’s high inflation and Northwest Arkansas’ increased cost of living.

Bipartisan legislation is in the works to regulate cryptocurrency in the United States, with Arkansas' senior senator John Boozman co-sponsoring the bill. We speak to Senator Boozman about the call to regulation, the importance of making the work bipartisan, and how to stay knowledgable about a rapidly moving industry.

Escalating gun violence on U.S. public school campuses is prompting districts in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley this fall to hire more police-affiliated School Resource Officers —SROs for short. Springdale Schools are nearly doubling school campus security forces, with Fayetteville Public Schools aiming to have armed security on all sixteen school campuses. The Arkansas School Safety Grant Program is providing funding to applicant districts to expand law enforcement.

On today's show, Arkansas methodist churches consider conflict. Plus, remember a historic enslaved person in Fayetteville, the last drive-in theater in northwest Arkansas closes, and much more.

Monday night at 6:00 there will be a public forum dedicated to the legacy of Nelson Hackett and how the city of Fayetteville can honor his memory. He was an enslaved man who fled the city in the mid-19th century. An ensuing legal battle made intertnational news.

Sean Fitzgibbon has spent more than a decade working on his new book 'What Follows is True' using his art, and research, to tell the story of Norman Baker's wild, fraudulent ride through life. That ride included an infamous tenure at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs.

Ukraine war refugees are finding temporary safe haven in Arkansas with assistance from the the state’s leading refugee resettlement agency, Canopy NWA, under the new federal program, “Uniting for Ukraine.”

Today's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal includes an examination of the impact the late Cameron Smith had on how Bentonville and Northwest Arkansas operate.

On today's show, the history of women's reproductive rights in Arkansas. Plus, a third summer of COVID-19, ProMusica in Joplin announces their 43rd season, and much more.