Coming up on this episode, the short work week before the July 4 holiday saw lots of action in Washington County, including the surprise presentation of long-term building plans that proved to be even more of a surpise to the officials who would have to work in the facilities.

Elsewhere, the focus was fairly light with the Benton County Quorum Court establishing an operating fund for what they hope would be a misdemeanor pod in its county jail whose capacity hadn't changed though the county's population more than doubled, and the Rogers City Council approving a contribution to the Children and Family Advocacy Center to offset the loss of federal funds.

Further afield, the state office celebrated a bumper crop of surplus revenue in its fiscal year that ended June 30 while officials in Oklahoma had a different kind of bumper crop harvesting nearly a ton of funny grass that was allegedly being grown illegally. And the National Transportation Safety Board filed an intial report into the plane crash in Butler, Missouri that killed all aboard.

The Benton County Extension Report highlighted an amazing opportunity for 4-H youth to see the nation on its 250th birthday while Northwest Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack dons his top hat to report on the longest-running and most expensive soap opera in the nation where just about anything that gets done is accidental.

And our trip off the beaten path takes us to the home of our elder cousins, where the fossil of a dinosaur found in Antarctica was treated like a bill in Parliament, forgotten in a desk for about four decades before being discovered.