Dan Conaway
Conaway: In the rearview mirror, I see hope ahead
The occasion was an Alpha Tau Omega fraternity reunion of the members and Little Sisters from, oh, 1967 to 1976 at UT. Ancient Greeks.
Dan Conaway
Columnist
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
There are 321 articles by Dan Conaway :
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June 2024
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Dan ConawayConaway: Feagins’ courage is welcome, except of course, by her board
Opinion: This school board is dangerously close to looking like the boards before it, playing to the people in the room during meetings rather than the 110,000 students and their families they were elected to serve.
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Dan ConawayConaway: Musk and possibly the most pertinent opinions
If the world’s richest man was going to build his “gigafactory of compute” in Atlanta or Nashville, they’d be blowing so hard, there’d be tornado watches.
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July 2024
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Dan ConawayConaway: ‘I Want You’ is still a message for today
In this election, you can save this country from four years of chaos, from power used for revenge and from power used to pardon the guilty and convict the innocent.
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Dan ConawayConaway: Mongo, the chimp, a new suit and all our Memphis stories
“I took the chimp’s hand. He walked me to the men’s suits, and stepped back as if to say, ‘You look like a 38 regular.’”
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Dan ConawayConaway: Scratches don’t define life; they define experience
I had no idea my car had that many scratches. Then I remembered the mounting and unmounting of the luggage carrier for trips to the beach and trips here and there.
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Dan ConawayConaway: Deja 1968? A nation’s test
Through all of that wretched year — a presidential resignation, two assassinations, an open convention, rioting, an election — America stood.
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August 2024
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OpinionConaway: Steve Larkin was salt of the Earth and a legend
If we’re lucky — very lucky — life will afford us a few very good friends — friends who expect nothing from us but us, friends whose simple presence in a room makes the room better and the day improved.
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Dan ConawayConaway: Shine, Memphis, shine
Memphis and its people are real — as real as the lives they face, as warm as a needed hug and as uniquely colorful as the palette of their own making.
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Dan ConawayConaway: The game is back — and still at its absolute best
Watching them play, even if you’ve never pulled a club back, is watching the beauty of those swings and this sport, of individual achievement.
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Dan ConawayConaway: Let’s give all these crazy ideas a name — Lauren Crews
Let’s rename Crump Park, a lovely little spot, Crews Park. Crump already has plenty of things named after him.
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September 2024
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Dan ConawayConaway: Finally agreed — the boys can write
After my oldest brother died, my other brother and I began really talking and laughing.
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Dan ConawayConaway: This time, The Citadel saluted
This is about effort against odds, the measure being the effort itself, never accepting that there’s no sense in trying, never giving anything less than your best, knowing the measure of you is you.
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Dan ConawayConaway: In Tennessee, Trump couldn’t vote
“In one of the reddest states in the nation, where Trump will likely win by more votes than Tennessee-based Cracker Barrel has biscuits, Trump couldn’t vote.”
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Dan ConawayConaway: We haven’t done anything about guns, and the Legislature is scared we might
“Can a city stand against laws that disproportionately and negatively affect their entire population, daily threatening their safety, their livelihoods and their very lives?”
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Dan ConawayConaway: The hotel that saved Downtown
“The City of Memphis buying a hotel to protect its interests — our interests — is not a bad idea. But, the city running a hotel is a terrible idea.”
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October 2024
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Dan ConawayConaway: Dan’s Tasteful List 2024
Eating out in Memphis is a reward for living here. You deserve it.
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Dan ConawayConaway: Oceans give rise to storms and lies. We must rise to meet them.
“The truth is that no one is asking the people that have lost everything whether or not they are Republican or Democrat before they help them, no more than those two walkers on the beach asked me.”
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Dan ConawayConaway: This ballot ‘triggers’ memories but also possibilities
Tennessee’s Republican leadership maintains that cities and counties can’t have different state laws, but what did they do when it came to new, suburban school districts and school vouchers?
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Dan ConawayConaway: Katz and Wright, therapy for the moment
“If you see me talking to myself, just move along. I’m self-employed; we’re having a staff meeting.”
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November 2024
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Dan ConawayConaway: Tuesday is the measure of us
In his opinion piece, Dan Conaway says that if you vote for Donald Trump, whatever he does will be with your permission.
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