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Police & city employee salary wages, property maintenance code, flooding prevention, dueling convention center projects, congested roads.... This year's Jonesboro Mayoral race has a lot riding on it. KASU wants to connect you to this year's candidates in a fair and balanced forum. Beginning Thursday, September 22 during NPR's Morning Edition, KASU's Jonathan Reaves will interview all 6 of the candidates one at a time. You get to clearly hear each of these candidates present proposed solutions and answer some of your biggest questions live on 91.9 FM and streaming here on KASU.org & the NPR app.Plus, if you have missed an interview, you can catch up to all of the interviews by subscribing to the special podcast. These interviews will also be available on the NPR One app.All interviews will be at 8:20 am. Here's a schedule of interviews:Thursday, September 22: Incumbent Jonesboro Mayor Harold PerrinFriday, September 23: Thomas ElwoodTuesday, September 27: Nathan ColemanWednesday, September 28: John StreetThursday, September 29: Harold CopenhaverFriday, September 30: Amanda Dunavant

Jonesboro Mayoral Candidates talk about qualifications, annexation

Brandon Tabor, KASU News

In this story, you can hear each candidate for Jonesboro Mayor talk about their qualifications for being the next mayor and how they would address future annexations of land in Jonesboro.  Click on the Listen button to hear the story.

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.