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Nashville Officials Create Fund to Help Businesses As Number of Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Soars

March 19, 2020March 18, 2020 Chris Butler

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Officials in Nashville have set up a fund to help people who have fallen ill to the coronavirus or lost their jobs or number of working hours because of it.

Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp CEO Makes $792,000 Per Year

September 17, 2018September 16, 2018 Chris Butler

Butch Spyridon

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Butch Spyridon, the CEO of the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp makes a great deal of money in annual salary every year, even more so than his counterparts in other large cities. As Tennessee Watchdog reported, Spyridon has used taxpayer-funded resources — even money meant for the 2010 flood relief…