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The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • A4

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The Tennesseani
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4A SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2020 THE TENNESSEAN Customer service To view important information online related to your subscription, visit aboutyoursubscription.tennessean.com. You can also manage your subscription at account.tennessean.com. Contact The Tennessean for questions or to report issues via email at or 1-800-342-8237. Operating hours are: Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Saturday: 7:00 a.m.

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Share your stories. Visit The Tennessean at connect.tennessean.com. Corrections and clarifications Our goal is to promptly correct errors. Email us at tennessean.com to report a mistake or call 615-259-8095. Describe the error, where you saw it, the date, page number, or the URL.

Contact us Customer Service Vice President Editor A. Anastasi 615-259-8022 Advertising Ryan Kedzierski 615-259-8822 Obituaries 615-259-8808 Postal information The Tennessean, USPS is published Monday through Sunday at 1801 West End Nashville, TN 37203. Periodicals postage paid at Nashville, TN 37203. Postmaster: Send address changes to Customer Service, PO Box 62670, San Angelo, TX 76906. The show took viewers into homes and venues, in- cluding many Nashville institutions that remain dor- mant due to the ongoing health crisis.

At the Ryman Auditorium, musicians Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, who describe Prine as a and opened the broadcast with In a por- trait of elderly loneliness he penned as a 20-some- thing delivering mail in suburban Chicago. With an at-home performance, Kacey Musgraves reprised One With John a nod to the age- less and enteral coolness shared among a modern class of Nashville songwriters. so thankful I got to be on this planet at the same time as Musgraves said. left us so may wonderful treasures and stories and traveled to Washington state, where Brandi Carlile led a timely rendition of politi- cally coy Flag Decal Get You Into Heaven former Oh Boy artist and longtime Prine friend Todd Snider from his East Nashville the Purple Room; van of earned a trio treatment from the co-writers The Black Dan Auerbach and song- writer Pat McLaughlin, joined by producer Dave Fer- guson. Backs turned to rows of vinyl LPs, Margo Price and Jeremy Ivey recorded The from East Nash- ville record store and, in downtown Nash- ville, Eric Church stepped on stage at the CMA Thea- ter for an acoustic performance of late-career Prine song Is My The show teamed performances and stories with archived footage of Prine, where he discussed song- writing, snowstorms and his signature cocktail, a Two of sons, Jack Prine and Tommy Prine, performed a song Prine wrote for his father about the coal mining indus- try stripping his familial hometown in rural Kentucky.

Fiona Whelan Prine, wife of 24 years, shared gratitude for those who supported her family following her death. Whelan Prine said. loved hard. He love He loved well. really all he believed Some sang, but others, such as Stephen Colbert, Billy Bob Thorton and Bill Murray, shared words.

Mur- ray recalled of my favorite times when Prine invited him to sing with bluegrass The Streeldrivers at the Grand Ole Opry. got a huge kick out of it because we got to go out there and just like Brother, Where Art Murray said. got his own microphone and The Steeldrivers and myself got one mic to sing, and to lean into, like the movie. was one of the greatest nights ever. It was a real- ly great With the penultimate performance, Prine friend and musician Bonnie Raitt From a song written by the Midwesterner about a restless Southern housewife that Raitt with her 1974 cover helped transform into arguably his best-known work.

The night closed with a recording of the last song on last record, I Get To a song reminding listeners how Prine planned to spend the afterlife. that little song, he laid out his complete set of Whelan Prine said, adding, makes me cry. It comforts me, raised at least $200,000 in dona- tions for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, with contributions to other charities yet to be totaled. A re- play of the show remains on YouTube through Sun- day. Prine Continued from Page 2A Bonnie Raitt and John Prine embrace after their performance at the Americana Music Honors Awards on Sept.

11, 2019, at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. LARRY toilets and turning light switches on we really know where we Tatoian said. will be there to get that cranked up and The facility has not been neglected over the past decade. Dover stationed an employee there to monitor the property and make sure it was not vandalized or any serious damage. has kept his eye on it for us so if there was something we needed to know about we were out ahead of all of Tatoian said.

really is go- ing to be paying dividends for us that not going to be surprised as we dig Still, Tatoain is prepared for there to be plenty to do over the next year in order to bring a NASCAR Cup Series race to the Superspeedway for each of the next four years. An estimated $8 million to $10 million in- vestment will likely be needed for the project, ac- cording to Denis McGlynn, president and CEO of Do- ver Motorsports Inc. the longest time we planning on re- opening the facility and we were pretty clear about that when we closed it Tatoian said. have an idea of where we are and our employee there has kept us abreast of that. But, obviously, his eyes and ears were on it just from the standpoint of mak- ing sure things wrong with the Three engineers from NASCAR will join the group from Dover, including Jerry Dunning, who spent 44 years with the company before retiring in 2016 as senior vice president general manager.

Tatoin asked Dunning to come along because he was involved in the building of the speedway in 2001. Terry Harmeson, another retired Dover senior exec- utive and engineer, will join them. knows the property extraordinarily well and Terry has been a part of our company for many years and has been (at Nashville Superspeedway) a couple of times and has a tremendous construction back- Tatoian said. both have retired, but putting the Blues Brothers Band back together again. I feel so comfortable from the facilities side with those guys being After the visit, Tatoian said Dover will hire a group to remain in Nashville and handle what needs to be done.

Last fall, a 47-acre parcel within the property was sold to Panattoni Development, which built a industrial building on a 1.5 mil- lion-square-foot building pad. But Tatoian said it impact the speedway itself. land that has been developed be an is- sue at Tatoian said. or not, take it as we were just incredibly brilliant soothsayers, whether it was going to be us or somebody that want- ed to acquire the track and run it, we always had that in the back of our mind. So the land that has been purchased and developed by Panattoni have any impact with what build on the Reach Mike Organ at 615-259-8021 or on Twitter Dover Continued from Page 1A The Nashville Board of Health voted Thursday to immediately stop sharing the names and addresses of people infected with coronavirus with police and other responders, ending a contentious component of the response to the pandemic.

But several board members said they planned to re- visit the sharing policy when the city developed a more precise system for releasing private information to po- lice in a limited way. Mayor John Cooper supported sharing coronavirus patient information with responders, but the pro- gram was opposed by most of the Metro Council and some outspoken medical professionals. In response to this outcry, the Metro government was actively working to redesign the program so it would narrowly release patient information under circumstances. However, a city said Thursday this redesign could take months, and the Board of Health was clearly unwilling to wait. we allow this policy to continue, in light of the current dynamics and conversations about race it sends a bad message that we are just not in step with the direction of this said board Vice Chair Tene Franklin, who led the vote to end the policy.

Board members voted three to one with two absten- tions. The lone vote in opposition came from board member Thomas Campbell, who said he could not support a decision that prioritized privacy over man Board member Margreete Johnston said she opposed the decision for similar reasons but abstained from the vote. Metro Public Health Director Michael Caldwell, who has repeatedly defended for the sharing policy, said he was concerned the decision could hamper contact tracing and potentially lead responders to spread the virus to others. are going to have a situation where the virus could take hold at the jail or the Caldwell said. hope is that it but this takes a tool away that we were using successfully.

But we will do our best to work without it temporarily, I Until now, police and other responders have been provided names and addresses of people with coronavirus in the city by the Metro Public Health De- partment. The information sharing is intended to pro- tect responders from exposure to the virus, but sparked outrage and raised concerns that some people may avoid being tested for the virus due to an inherent distrust of law enforcement. Criticism of the sharing program grew as the coro- navirus pandemic dovetailed with nationwide pro- tests of police violence against black people and sys- temic racism in the American criminal justice system. In response to growing opposition, the city govern- ment began working with Motorola this week on a re- vised system to allow responders to avoid expo- sure without simply handinga list of names. Instead, dispatchers who coordinate with police and re- sponders would have a limited ability to query individ- ual addresses and names against a database kept on a secured Metro Health computer server.

The full data- base would not have been available to anyone outside of Metro Health. Brian Todd, a spokesman for the Met- ro Health department, said Thursday the agency ex- pected to send foundational documents to Motorola by the end of next week. But, during the Board of Health meeting later that day, Metro Chief Information Technology Keith Durbin said development of the revised system could take months. The revised system was originally proposed by Metro Council member Freddie who op- posed that unfettered sharing of patient information with responders. He pitched the idea to the at the Will rally held in Nashville on May 30.

said earlier on Thursday he was excited his idea was being pur- sued by the but ex- pressed concerns about the speed of development. He said the revised sys- tem was an ideal balance between pri- vacy and protecting responders. can do said. can protect personal health data and you can enable responders to have the best available is exactly how you want data to he add- ed. want it to be useful without making someone Brett Kelman is the health care reporter for The Ten- nessean.

He can be reached at 615-259-8287 or at brett.kelman@tennessean.com. City to stop giving patient names to police Mayor supported sharing virus information with responders Brett Kelman Nashville Tennessean USA TODAY NETWORK TENNESSEE Soheb Khan, a preventive medicine resident, administers a COVID-19 test at Mount Gilead Missionary Baptist Church during a testing event on June 6. ALAN THE TENNESSEAN Musgraves, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Eric Church and more, debuted Thursday on YouTube channel. Produced by family and Oh Boy Rec- ords, the program raised at least $200,000 for char- ities combating those impacted by COVID-19. Bill Murray, Stephen Colbert and journalist John Dickerson were among the friends and family who toasted Prine during the show.

hard to talk about John being gone because his music is so Dickerson said. feel like you know him, or more to the point, he knows you. the chills you get on your arm when you hear him on a summer day. The time-travel you feel when a song takes you back to the night you wore the grooves out on his Viewers can stream via YouTube until Sunday. Song Continued from Page 2A.

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