Policy and Politics

Jonesboro City Council Ward 5, Position 1 Features L.J. Bryant, Robert Speer

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published October 17, 2018 at 9:28 AM CDT

One of the four races on the Jonesboro City Council involves Ward 5, Position 1. Incumbent L.J. Bryant faces challenger Robert Speer. They answer questions about bike and pedestrian paths, sidewalks, calls for an aquatic center, Jonesboro's reserves and the budget, traffic issues in Jonesboro, growth in Jonesboro, and preventative flooding measures. Click on the Listen button for the entire story.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the faculty advisor and editor-in-chief for Delta Digital News Service and the former 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.

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