Conaway: Mr. Mayor, before you become Mr. again, don’t leave us in shame
Fair or not, the next few weeks are critical to Mayor Jim Strickland’s legacy and will leave an ugly mark or deliver a bright promise.
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September 2023
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Conaway: A 901 birth, a 901 death, a 901 legacy
We were very proud of the baby that came out of that room, out of a whole lot of rooms and minds and hearts, a whole city’s baby.
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Dan Conaway on The Daily Memphian’s 5th anniversary. And yelling. So much yelling.
As The Daily Memphian approaches its fifth anniversary on Sept. 17, Dan joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to talk about the launch, The Daily Memphian, his column and more.
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August 2023
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Conaway: You — yes, you — will choose Memphis’ next mayor
When 12% of the voters can put a candidate in the top four or five, the votes in your Friday night poker game could put somebody over the top.
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Conaway: Swimming in memory with Ann Wiggs and Eudora Welty
“We met a month before at the spring-fed pool at Allison’s Wells, a fading Southern Belle of a place — sort of resort, part art colony, part retreat from change deep in the Mississippi woods outside of Canton.”
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Conaway: The game. At its absolute best, right here. Be proud.
Next week, the 70 best players in the world will be here — right here — to play the game like no one else in the world can.
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July 2023
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Calling the bluff: Gambling for a piece of the action
“While I understand, and share, Virginia McLean’s passion to realize the vision, I submit that her passion has prohibited her from seeing the obvious.”
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Conaway: Moving boxes, Band-Aids, bruises and blood
Johnson & Johnson called. They wanted to make sure I was still at it before they made their quarterly projection for shareholders.
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Conaway: Everything has changed — except the checklist
“Sure, you can consider if the candidate would vote your way, or if your interests are going to be protected or pursued. You can consider whether or not you both share a love of fried green tomatoes, but without that checklist as your basic guide, all bets are off.”
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June 2023
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Conaway: Health care is robbing us blind in broad daylight
“There’s a quote that comes to mind. Max von Sydow said, ‘If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.’”
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Conaway: Moving — the archaeology of lives
We make progress, and then we find another failing envelope, labelled in fading ink, full of old pics of people with life in front of them, their faces full of possibility, and hours are lost as we know them again, as we visit them again, as we return.
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Conaway: Hey, neighbor, could we borrow a cup of tomorrow?
“Tennessee is flunking childhood education, and the valedictorian of that failure just might be Memphis.”
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Conaway: Chicken tossing days and dog dipping — a cautionary tale
“Cas Walker was a Knoxville grocer, promoter, broadcaster, politician, con man and character. He wasn’t in denial about his outrageous business practices and politics; he knew they were outrageous, and he was proud of every one of them.”
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Conaway: Random wisdom. Or not.
“If you’ve seen any of these before, just laugh again.”
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May 2023
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Conaway: From King to Kent State, change burns in a nation under fire
“With that tragic event came an understanding that we have the unique responsibility to reject everything that pulled that trigger, the national events and mindsets that were behind that bullet then and now.”
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Conaway: Memphis City Council — gutless against gunfire
“Instead of dealing with a deadly situation now — deadlier by the day — the council pushed a decision on the ordinances to a referendum in August of 2024 — more than a year from now.”
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Conaway: The chutzpah of deceit: Kelsey
“Brian Kelsey is certainly not the only example of the moral bankruptcy of so much of our society; he’s just a ready and easy pick of low-hanging rotten fruit.”
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Conaway: I hear a career. I hear my life. Thanks, Jack.
“I’ve had as much fun inside windowless studio rooms working with Jack Parnell as in any space in a 52-year career.”
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April 2023
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Conaway: $787.5 million worth of lies, give or take
“Lies are fluid, based on fiction rather than fact, floating on a septic sea of deception, changing course to suit the lie, navigating an ever-false course, seeking an ever-false destination.”
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Conaway: 11-foot ceiling down, huge primary bedroom and pneumonia
“I didn’t mention that we put our house on the market that same day. Staged it, coughing. Fixed it, coughing. Moved ‘clutter' to storage, coughing. Then I moved into Methodist Germantown and left the rest to Nora.”
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Conaway: Down the rabbit hole with the Tennessee legislature
“This adolescent muscle-flex, this junior high hissy fit, this racist knee-jerk, this blatant abuse of power, this embarrassing lack of judgment put Tennessee in the national spotlight again.”
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Conaway: I could cry, but he’d have none of that
“Dinner at his and Carol’s house, or five minutes on the phone, or two minutes in the corner of a theater lobby at intermission – be assured – you’d spit out whatever you were drinking.”
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March 2023
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Conaway: Time to get away is close by
Getting away from it all is all around us, and — if only for a morning in the woods or an afternoon or day on the water, or in a peaceful moment of reflection — we need but see it.
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Conaway: When they came up with this, they must have been loaded
“Cops know that putting a loaded gun on the hip of a teenager, or in the hands of a high school cheerleader, a ‘watch this’ bubba, or a something-to-prove street kid is guaranteed lethal.”
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Conaway: Ja not the first to pay price fame demands
“Few of us, and certainly not this writer, can truly know the gift of immense talent and the impact of fame and mountains of money at age 23.”
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