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I think that locations is still juuust a bit off the beaten path as well. It got traffic from concert goers, but that’s not the type of place you want to eat before an outdoor concert IMO. I liked the food.

Those glass panels are pretty impressive in person. I drove by yesterday. From the road they look like they are two inches thick.

That was just the first phase. Later, probably when the international facility is done, it will be completed and used for easier maneuvering and I think some aircraft parking spots.

I'm "progressive / left / liberal" and I voted for Cooper. I did it after reading a few endorsements that to me read like a wink and nod that Cooper was going to do exactly what he's done. He did everything he could to balance the budget, but gosh darn-it, it couldn't happen without raising taxes too. Now Covid obviously threw a wrench into things so we will never know if I and others were right, but I'm definitely happy with this tax increase.

Need these folks for what? You don’t think the council will approve (with tweaks I’m sure) his budget?

Just reading through all this, but maybe Cooper is doing what he thinks is best for the city instead of what will make him friends and get re-elected? It’s not like he’s a young guy eyeing governor or something right? Nashville property taxes are just stupid low. The admins before Cooper screwed this city. Every one of them that thought about their careers instead of the city.

This hotel is not exciting at all, but I also doubt very many people drive by the current apartments and think, “wow look at those historic prewar structures with their beautiful window units hanging off the side! What a beautiful city.”

They tell you what they changed. At a high level, they got more data from countries that have already peaked suggesting a faster time between "lockdown" and peak, and they also got more data on hospital stay lengths and ratios to deaths. Several other things are discussed as well. http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/Projects/COVID/Estimation_update_040520_1.pdf

I’m guessing it will start as planned which I’m assuming was already immediately. They’ve got 4 more floors of parking on that side before the tower actually starts. The real question is their option on that 3rd tower across the street!

I never mentioned it, but my wife and I stayed here a couple nights after our house lost power. They were very gracious to only charge 99 a night to tornado victims. Just a few insights: The rooms are small. More like a NYC hotel room. Nicely appointed though. They currently have elevator attendants for their 12 story building. I think it's because the interface is rather confusing. You have to enter the floor on a numpad and then choose which door (front or back) you want opened. I am guessing a lot of guests got frustrated so they hired attendants. Bessy's on the roof was supposed to open at the end of March according to an employee. That of course didn't happen. Look forward to trying it when it does.

Yeah that's the plan. 1600 beds for those with Covid-19 that do not need intensive care. I do not think this will be needed right now, but the MCC isn't doing anything else at the moment so it's great to have that capacity to expand into.

Aerial imagery of the Nashville tornado. https://nashville.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=2b460b2577d7414eb8f8df5a750d00e1

Sorry didn’t mean to come off so harsh. I just wanted to make the point that for certain segments of the population, this is really scary. Just like with getting the flu shot, we healthy people have a responsibility to protect the immunocompromised and keep them in mind.

It’s called flattening the epidemic curve. Look it up. Everyone May get this Eventually, but the healthcare system could be easily overwhelmed if everyone gets it over the next month or two vs the next year. Also, of course there’s research going on to find the best treatments / vaccine. That all takes time. people are dying from this. Have some respect for the elderly and those with weakened immune systems for various reasons. This is potentially life threatening to them.

Literally in the article you link to he says it might be like a severe flu season or even pandemic flu season and you decide that means it’s “b-team flu?” Again this isn’t the end of the world or even close but even if it’s “just a severe flu” that’s a severe flu on top of regular flu season potentially forever. (Hopefully vaccines come out)The reason the economy is shutting down is because nobody knows yet. There’s incredible risk to assuming a new virus will just be no big deal. You cannot go back in time and recapture the early days of an outbreak. Exponential growth doesn’t work that way. I just don’t understand why you come on here and just decide epidemiologists around the world are all crazy. Are you into climate change denialism too?

The fatality rate of flu is like .1% so this is around 10 times deadlier than flu if this estimate is correct. It's like the flu all-stars with no vaccine soon. I'm not trying to be an alarmist. The world will certainly get past this, but there's no reason to downplay the real risk either.

Yeah that's a good point. I think the Cookeville tornado could be counted as a bit of a miss by forecasters. It was just barely outside the area they gave a risk of tornado for. Nashville was in the 2% chance of tornado area. That seems low, but you have to remember there wasn't really a tornado outbreak either. most areas in middle TN didn't seen anything close to a tornado.

This is an inaccurate statement. We were in a slight risk of severe storms. The NWS even told us to expect them between 12 and 5 am. https://twitter.com/NashSevereWx/status/1234675661098213378?s=20

It takes me like 5 minutes to get through with pre most of the time. For those that have it, Is this really worth it?

Can anyone peel back the pay wall?

I think we all just have a different line on how far is too far. Of course I would hope everyone agrees that at some point it IS the DUTY of the incoming Mayor to clean up the terrible deals of the former administration. I think a lot of people on this board felt that what the Barry admin had done did not cross that line. Some do.

I really liked Briley at the beginning. I really got turned off by his attempts to sell off city property for an extremely short term budget fix, and also his pledge not to raise taxes. I think he might have changed that pledge at the very end of the campaign, but that's disconcerting too. Hence my reluctant vote for Cooper.

Well there's a national (somewhat thanks to Amazon, but other populist reasons too) push-back on handouts to corporations, and I think locally there is some worry that the growth is not keeping up with infrastructure. I personally think infrastructure is lagging, but my personal opinion is to raise taxes to fix infrastructure. I think a lot of more conservative people want to go the other way and pump the brakes on growth. My intuition is that Cooper is trying to thread the needle. I personally hope he is setting up to eventually "have to reluctantly" raise taxes.