Conaway: 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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November 2024
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October 2024
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Conaway: 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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Conaway: 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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Conaway: 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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Conaway: Dan’s Tasteful List 2024
Eating out in Memphis is a reward for living here. You deserve it.
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September 2024
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Conaway: 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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Conaway: 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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Conaway: 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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Conaway: 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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Conaway: 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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August 2024
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Conaway: 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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Conaway: 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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Conaway: 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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July 2024
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Conaway: 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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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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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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