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Renee Montagne hosted All Things Considered, Morning Edition and helped establish NPR West as an important part of the network. Montagne announced her retirement from NPR late last month and spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams last week.

Fluoride has been in Arkansas’ drinking water for decades, but there is legislation in Little Rock that could change that. On today's show, our reporter, Jack Travis, considers the past and possible future of fluoride in Arkansas. We’ll also talk food with the creative culinary minds behind the Rabbit Hole restaurant popups. Plus, we learn more about a one-night tribute to one of pop music’s enduring duos.

Pop-up dining collective Rabbit Hole, is starting a new weekly dinner series "Wabbit Wednesdays" to bring unique meals to northwest Arkansas.

On Feb.18, "The Simon and Garfunkel Story" will be at the Walton Arts Center. Elliot Lazar is Paul Simon in the production and spoke with Ozarks at Large about the show.

Since 2018, more than 17,000 podcasts from every state, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have been submitted to the NPR Student Podcast Challenge. And the NPR education team is bringing the contest back for another year.

Lawmakers are considering two bills that would abolish the statewide fluoridation program and allow individual communities to decide whether to allow the mineral in tap water. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis spoke with the bills' co-sponsor and a local dentist to learn more.

The Arkansas Legislature is considering a bill to reduce cell phone use in public schools.

Resources for rural startups can be limited, but the Community and Rural Enterprise Development Clinic at the University of Arkansas Law School can help them. The clinic’s director, Peter Norman, is this week’s guest on Randy Wilburn’s “I Am Northwest Arkansas” podcast.

Patty Hector was fired as the director of the Saline County Library after she refused to relocate books that offended some community members.

The bill would require schools to show students a video depicting the development of a human embryo that critics say is biased and scientifically inaccurate.