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Arkansas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also, half of the state is classified as a "maternity care desert," in a report from March of Dimes. Arkansas Center for Health Improvement officials recognized the state's rankings on maternity health care during Maternal Health Awareness Day this Monday.

Grades are still low for Arkansas when it comes to Tobacco Control, according to the American Lung Association in Arkansas. Its State of Tobacco Control report offers a grade card and policy recommendations for the state legislature.

Hosts Rachell Sanchez-Smith and Rogelio Garcia Contreras, director of social innovation for the Walton College of Business, speak with Lia Uribe, founder of RefleXions, Steven Byess, music director of the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra, and Margot LeMaster, director of EngageNWA, about the reimagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into The Four Seasons of Latin Jazz. Also, what diversity and equity work looks like through creative justice.

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, comes back to our show next week with a new collection of facts, tidbits and quizzes about language. We get ready for her return with a visit she made to our studio last May to talk about the fun of punctuation.

The publications of Carroll County News are again owned by residents of the county. Three new co-owners purchased the company and took ownership at the first of the year.

Our latest batch of archives from the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History help us trace how FedEx got a start in Arkansas.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will soon decide whether to terminate federal protections for giant ivory-billed woodpeckers, due to lack of definitive evidence revealing the species continues to persist in remote forested swamps of eastern Arkansas and northern Louisiana.

Roby Brock, with our partner Talk Business & Politics, asks Rex Nelson, the senior editor at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, what he's observed in the first few days of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' term.

Attorney General Tim Griffin is offering input on what he would like to see in a criminal justicereform bill for the Arkansas Legislature.

Two writers with deep Northwest Arkansas ties have collaborated on writing about a murder from 1885.