Columbus Mayor Ginther to talk about recovery, resilience in State of City
In mid-February 2020, Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther used his annual State of the City address to say once again that, "The state of our city is strong." Days after he spoke those words last year, 300 Americans were evacuated from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, including 14 who tested positive for COVID-19. And a month later, a 49-year-old man returning from a trip on a cruise ship became the first of more than 120,000 Franklin County residents to eventually test positive for COVID-19, a pandemic that would rock the city's service-sector job base. In the midst of...
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