Conaway: 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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July 2024
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Conaway: ‘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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June 2024
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Conaway: 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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Conaway: 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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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.
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Conaway: A place unto us
“If you didn’t like my proposal for starting the state of West Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, there’s this possibility: The City-state of Memphis.”
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May 2024
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Conaway: Imagine, the state of West Tennessee
Announcing the birth of our nation’s 51st state:
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Conaway: Slaw is our state food? Really?!?
Like us, Memphis barbecue doesn’t need fancy; it abhors pretense and imitation; it stands on its own; it’s one of a kind and we’re happy to share.
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Conaway: ‘Light it up,’ he told the driver
“In a world either on fire or simmering, in a country dangerously divided, in a challenged city, perspective returns in an ambulance.”
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April 2024
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Conaway: Time to get away is close by
“We were out in the country, the middle of nowhere yet right here, two old friends and a couple dogs among old barns on a new morning, and we were having a business meeting.”
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Letter to the Editor: Conaway’s COVID column included too much scolding
“If Dan wants to encourage people to get out and support restaurants and whatever else, great. But I don’t expect my favorite news source to shame me for making choices to protect myself once I realized how very badly COVID acts on my particular body.”
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March 2024
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Conaway: Ghosts rising within
Research has revealed that Nathan Bedford Forrest’s slave pens were originally behind Calvary Episcopal Church, but in the 1880s, the church expanded to the east over the site of the pens.
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Conaway: In the end, there’s honey
All across Memphis, like the hives of Thistle & Bee, people are hard at work to bring fellow Memphians back from the ravages of poverty, abuse, neglect and the companions of those conditions — crime, addiction and exploitation.
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Conaway: Calvary’s Waffle Shop is how Memphis does Lent
The mayonnaise is richer than Elon Musk.
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February 2024
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Conaway: A letter to a city from a friend
“The Boys and Girls Clubs have moved in, connected with and changed some of our most troubled communities. We could help so many more.”
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Conaway: Guns to Gardens — Despair to hope, death to life
At an upcoming event, unwanted guns will be turned into something that plants new seeds and instills new hope.
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Conaway: Deep thoughts. Well, deep enough
“Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.”
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Conaway: Health care theft is on for Tuesday. Grab your wallet
Your City Council has voted twice already — unanimously, through the body’s consent agenda — to give themselves health care for life. On Tuesday, if they vote for it a third time, it will become law.
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January 2024
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Conaway: Their Chamber, or ours?
“And whoever — singular or plural — made the decision to bypass all elected bodies, kneecap the brand-new city mayor and invite Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee to come plant the state flag in City Hall does not speak for us.”
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Conaway: Gov. Lee wants you to pay tuition at MUS and Hutchison
“Lee thinks his voucher program will become a national model. The lies told to get it, and the threats and pressure brought to bear, have already made it a national embarrassment.”
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Conaway: Love to hate to in-between, a mixed review in 15 seconds
“I got in touch with Harry and told him my idea. Conduct an experiment. Submit my column ‘Pig Ultimate’ to ChatGPT and ask for three different 100-word reviews: one very positive, one negative and one balanced.”
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Conaway: You’re being robbed. For life.
Martavius Jones has just snuck into your house through an unlocked window and stolen a knee replacement from your dark living room.
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December 2023
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Conaway: Tall and ugly, a beautiful promise
“If you’re looking for something to look forward to in the New Year, I’ll give you two. Just look up.”
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Conaway: A tree. A life.
The worn Big Bird and Cookie Monster, the Scotties and Flamingos, the typewriter and macramé angel, the stuff kids made, weren’t for the marketing target audience, they were for us.
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Conaway: Mumpower power is JB Smiley’s model
“JB Smiley Jr., or any local elected official, has no business in the board rooms of the University of Memphis. If the city council ran the university, chaos would be the only curriculum, and a BS degree would not stand for Bachelor of Science.”
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