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On Dec. 17, Mayor John Cooper sat down in front of the microphone at the Office of Emergency Management. It was the 90th time in nine months Cooper had addressed the public on the city’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And the week before his first virus address in March? Four press conferences in almost as many days about the impact of the tornado that ripped through the city.
This is not normal for a Nashville mayor.
By mid-April, Cooper had spent more time at the Office of Emergency Management than any of his predecessors. His first full year in office has been spent trying to strike a policy balance on a virus that has been lethal to both Nashville’s citizens and its economy. To be fair, a lot is outside the control of the mayor — private gatherings continue to be the engine for the spread of the virus, and the state’s response has been criticized as ineffectual as Tennessee leads the nation in infection rate. And the things Cooper actually

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