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    Conaway: A gift of perspective

    “The morning brings a new day, like the one before never happened, but like all the days before, what happened is baked in old slave-made brick, and immigrant-laid stone, and preserved.”

    By Dan Conaway February 07, 2025
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    Conaway: The governor’s wallet opens Jan. 27

    “Every vote for vouchers takes tax money, your money, from already underfunded public schools and gives it to private schools.”

    By Dan Conaway January 24, 2025
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    Conaway: If you’re in the funeral business, you’d best know where to dig

    “Brent Taylor would use his elected office — voted on by about 20% of the county — to remove a county official elected by 100% of the county voters.”

    By Dan Conaway January 19, 2025
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    Conaway: Let’s pick the cabinet

    “Aside from the obvious point that we could all suggest better than we’re going to get, the larger point is that we’re all going to need each other as things shake out in Washington.”

    By Dan Conaway January 10, 2025
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    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.

    By Dan Conaway November 06, 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.”

    By Dan Conaway October 25, 2024
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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? 

    By Dan Conaway October 18, 2024
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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.”

    By Dan Conaway October 11, 2024
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    Conaway: Dan’s Tasteful List 2024

    Eating out in Memphis is a reward for living here. You deserve it.

    By Dan Conaway October 04, 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.”

    By Dan Conaway September 27, 2024
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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?”

    By Dan Conaway September 20, 2024
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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.”

    By Dan Conaway September 13, 2024
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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. 

    By Dan Conaway September 06, 2024
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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.

    By Dan Conaway September 10, 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. 

    By Dan Conaway August 23, 2024
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    Conaway: 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. 

    By Dan Conaway August 16, 2024
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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.

    By Dan Conaway August 09, 2024
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    Conaway: 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.

    By Dan Conaway July 26, 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.

    By Dan Conaway July 19, 2024
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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.’”

    By Dan Conaway July 12, 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.

    By Dan Conaway July 05, 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.

    By Dan Conaway June 28, 2024
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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.

    By Dan Conaway June 21, 2024
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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.

    By Dan Conaway June 14, 2024
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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.”

    By Dan Conaway June 07, 2024

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