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Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean
Updated ·1 min read

A Metro Police officer cuts a senior citizen's grass on a hot summer day. Chuck Norris smiles and dances awkwardly as a Nashville acoustic band serenades him with the "Walker, Texas Ranger" theme song. An 81-year-old wins a prom queen crown.

Tennessean writers Brad Schmitt and Kelly Puente, whose birthdays are a day apart, pose after Tennessean "Aggressively Festive Editor" Nicole Young decorated them and their desks in the newsroom at 1801 West End Ave., on Aug. 10, 2023
Tennessean writers Brad Schmitt and Kelly Puente, whose birthdays are a day apart, pose after Tennessean "Aggressively Festive Editor" Nicole Young decorated them and their desks in the newsroom at 1801 West End Ave., on Aug. 10, 2023

Sure, we get plenty of tough news each week: War, divisive politics, crime, fires and smog.

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