Conaway: Pauses in the flow, a city’s tragic losses
Eliza Fletcher was a measure of this city. This tiny, tiny town with such a huge, huge heart.
Topic: Dan Conaway
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September 2022
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Conaway: The Lucca Model — a proposal
“Let’s make Memphis an independent city-state.”
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Dan Conaway’s Tasteful List gets a preview on Sound Bites
On Sound Bites, Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington talk with Daily Memphian columnist Dan Conaway about his upcoming Tasteful List 2022.
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Conaway: The Tasteful List 2022
“This city is blessed by its food, the abundance of creativity, diversity and tradition mixed in the same bowls, seasoned with love, soul and imagination — and still made and served by amazing people with a smile through the most trying of times.”
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August 2022
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Conaway: ‘I intend to live forever. So far, so good.’
That thought from comedian Steven Wright inspires a collection of wise and wise-guy sayings.
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Conaway: The winds blow hard Downtown
“Gene’s dreams survived, not just Hurricane Elvis but also the winds of the 2008 recession, slowed but resilient, and the winds of pandemic, slowed but recovering.”
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Conaway: Weekend’s golf tournament has everything to do with us
This weekend, the top 125 players on the PGA tour are in Memphis for the the first step to winning professional golf’s biggest prize but, for us, it’s personal.
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Conaway: Give us a break
A series of first-world deprivations has Dan Conaway in a mood. But thankfully he has tonic and limes.
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July 2022
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Letter to the Editor: A young white man’s response to the old white men about Old White Men
“Take a look at abortion policies around the world, and you will see an almost inverse relationship to white population and restrictions on abortion.”
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Conaway: Whistling isn’t evil. Whistling something evil is evil.
“The terms Republican and Democrat have become dog whistles to gather on the far right and far left. The colors red and blue, and the words conservative and liberal have been co-opted into whistles.”
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Letter to the Editor: What’s not mentioned in Dan Conaway’s column
Barry Chase, born in Memphis over 83 years ago, responds to Dan Conaway’s column “Welcome to the world of old white men.”
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Letter to the Editor: An old white man responds to Dan Conaway
A 65-year-old white man responds to Dan Conaway’s recent column, “Welcome to the world of old white men.”
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Conaway: Welcome to the world of old white men
“While white men over 65 represent something in the neighborhood of 5% of our population, they’re engaged in a battle to hold their fierce grip on power and opinion. Sadly, tragically, they’re winning.”
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Conaway: We’re a mess, and no one is responsible
“Our county is a mess. I’m taking it personally and so should you.”
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June 2022
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Conaway: School lessons in heroism
“We lead the world in gun violence and mass shootings, rampages with numerous people shot and killed. Our governor is a coward. All who take gun money in the face of this reality are cowards.”
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Conaway: Shared idiocy, shared lives
Idiots once, survivors now, we’re lucky to be alive, and very lucky to have stories and laughter – and friendships – like that to share.
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Conaway: Different windows, same views
As you read this, I will have completed the first leg — the longest leg — of a circular journey to visit family and friends. ... There’s a lot of driving, and between the Cracker Barrels, the walks with dogs in rest stops, the Waze warnings of vehicles on the shoulder ahead, and the whodunits in audio mystery books, there’s a lot of reflection.
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Conaway: Ja Morant is a commercial slam dunk for Memphis
“A lot of work for a lot of creative people. A lot of assists from Ja.”
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May 2022
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Conaway: Your money just got religion
The Tennessee Supreme Court recently approved the Education Savings Account Act. You say education savings accounts, I say vouchers. You say tomato, I say tomato. Rotten tomato.
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Conaway: Tennessee is guided by rustic values, its legislature is guided by rusty minds
Tracy City is representative of the majority of people in the Tennessee General Assembly. Repressing progress, fighting change.
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Conaway: ‘Maus’ and new math, the Cray Cray Quotient
They are banning books. Again. But more of them this time around, and with even less reason. There is nothing is more intrinsically un-American than controlling what we can see, what we can learn.
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Conaway: I had a wreck, and ran into Memphis
“I had some takeout at the Half Shell on Mendenhall. I took out the corner of the restaurant with a Subaru. Completely. Spectacularly.”
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April 2022
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Conaway: In Sunshine, we can see who we are
A reminder of those who took on the feds to hold back I-40 and won.
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Opinion: In defense of parents
Guest columnist Daniel Chatham responds to “the festering view that parents aren’t qualified and can’t be trusted to raise their kids, or at least to raise them in the ways of progressive ideology.”
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March 2022
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Conaway: The United States of Gunnysack and Whatabout
“Both approaches are the desperate acts of people who can’t counter an argument with salient facts or pertinent positions, people reduced to talking points, perhaps, screaming points.”
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