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Reporter Sophia Nourani speaks with the president of Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. This nonpartisan health consulting organization recently published the Arkansas Acute Behavioral Events Dashboard, a tool meant to provide health providers and insurers with a way to see the state of mental health in Arkansas.

The Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs is once again offering a fellowship opportunity titled “Real People, Real Struggles, Real Stories”, a two-week residency meant to provide space for the selected writer to express their experiences with mental health.

Becca Martin-Brown returns to discuss modern events with a deeper history with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams.

A new tool is designed to give health providers and insurers a deeper look at mental health in Arkansas. On today's show, we hear that the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement has a new Arkansas Acute Behavioral Events Dashboard. Also, a winter storm has area meteorologists working overtime, including Walmart’s in-house meteorologist. Plus, water resource groups are thinking about drinking water for a northwest Arkansas that has one million people.

As northwest Arkansas’ population steadily climbs toward the 1 million mark, the region must plan for how that growth will affect our region’s water resources. Therefore, the Beaver Watershed Alliance is hosting the Smart Growth for Water Resources Conference.

The ACCESS Act for higher education could make funding available for college noncredit certificate programs and withhold it from institutions that do not comply with its racial preference and student indoctrination provisions.

A bill that would change the educational requirements for state librarians cleared its first hurdle on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Republican State Sen. Dan Sullivan is the bill’s sponsor. SB181 removes the requirement for Arkansas library directors to have a master's degree from a graduate school of library science accredited by the American Library Association.

On today's show, we hear how local organizations are reckoning with the Trump Administration’s approach to LGBTQ+ civil rights. Plus, Fort Smith native and University of Arkansas graduate G. T. Karber explains how he combines murder and logic in his internationally best-selling "Murdle" books.

Arkansas and national LGBTQ+ organizations are reckoning with executive orders issued by the Trump administration that erase decades of LGBTQ+ civil rights achievements.

When a strong winter storm is approaching, what do we do around here? Get bread and milk. Lines at grocery stores Monday afternoon were long in anticipation of the snow. Turns out those stores are just as interested in the forecast as we are.