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    Opinion: I was born lucky, but don’t tell anybody. That’s illegal.

    Dan Conaway: ‘This is not about guilt. This is about awareness. If you were born white, you did absolutely nothing to deserve the privileges you’ve enjoyed because of it.’

    By Dan Conaway July 02, 2021
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    Opinion: Angels are and have been with us

    What made them angels was the sacrifice they made expecting no recognition at all.

    By Dan Conaway June 25, 2021
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    Opinion: A pink palace by any other name won’t sound as sweet

    It seems that the people managing the museums want to call themselves something other than the Pink Palace. But we “the locals” will never call the Pink Palace anything else. Even with a primer to explain whatever a MoSH is.

    By Dan Conaway June 13, 2021
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    Opinion: A road trip from Memphis to Memphis

    We haven’t been on the big road trip in two years — the one we used to take every year to visit family and friends. We haven’t seen our son-in-law in two years, our daughter in a year and a half. Our dogs haven’t seen their dogs.

    By Dan Conaway June 04, 2021
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    Opinion: A new course of optimism, from Sweetens Cove to Overton Park

    The remarkable Sweetens Cove Golf Club inspired Parks Dixon’s campaign to bring its designers to Memphis and turn them loose on Overton’s storied but long neglected nine.

    By Dan Conaway May 29, 2021
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    Opinion: We live in the Great State of Mediocrity

    Tennessee ranked 29th in U.S. News & World Report’s Best States ranking for 2021. ‘Here’s the scientific explanation, and I’ll try to be brief: Our state legislature is mean-spirited, small-minded, short-sighted. And cheap.’

    By Dan Conaway May 21, 2021
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    Opinion: Public schools are in a fight for their lives

    Government support is grudgingly given to public schools, because of legal requirements. In fact, our state has been sued to provide even that support. That’s why it’s so refreshing to see Richard Myers call for private money to help public schools. 

    By Dan Conaway May 14, 2021
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    Opinion: Not vaccinated? There are plenty of shady trees at Elmwood

    While ignorance has always been preventable and COVID-19 is now preventable, nothing can prevent stupid in 100% of us. Not getting a vaccine is all about you, a selfish and self-indulgent exercise.

    By Dan Conaway May 07, 2021
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    Opinion: Theatre Memphis’ leading lady, a force in high heels and sequins

    When she took over as executive producer, Theatre Memphis was full of debt with no endowment. Now the theater is in the black, full of hope, with an endowment, and a major capital campaign nearing completion.

    By Dan Conaway April 30, 2021
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    Opinion: What’s in a name? Put it to the Snuff test and find out

    Few companies understand what cub copywriters know: the public will shorten anything that’s too long for their use.

    By Dan Conaway April 23, 2021
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    Opinion: When the name is wrong, the smell is no rose

    ‘“Liberty” works in Philadelphia, where Bud Dudley and the Liberty Bowl came from, but it has no unique meaning in Memphis.’

    By Dan Conaway April 16, 2021
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    Opinion: After an Arctic blast, scratch and look for green

    People say wait, give things a chance. Take a limb and scratch it. Look for green. If there’s even a trace of green, there’s hope for recovery.

    By Dan Conaway April 09, 2021
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    Opinion: Close Riverside Drive to cars; open it to those who really count

    What have we learned from the hard lesson of Overton Park’s greensward? What has the COVID experiment taught us? 

    By Dan Conaway April 02, 2021
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    Opinion: If you’re copying, it’s not yours

    Dan Conaway: While we ignore Mud island, we’re giving Tom Lee Park more plastic surgery than the attendees at the Academy Awards, and if we’re going to make the Fairgrounds ours, the Coliseum has to be part of it and original thinking is required.

    By Dan Conaway March 26, 2021
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    Opinion: There are embarrassing people in our House. And Senate.

    Maybe the state’s largest population areas will get out the vote and get Tennessee into the 21st century. Georgia called. They want us to know that it’s possible.

    By Dan Conaway March 19, 2021
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    Opinion: Fill a prescription. Or buy a house.

    The shot I’m getting is hard to get, and costs more than our first house. The stuff in this syringe must come from cells scraped from the belly of the dragon Smaug by Hobbits.

    By Dan Conaway March 12, 2021
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    Opinion: Fire and ice. And friendship.

    You may have seen the photo with the story about the brutal weather — firefighters pushing to free an ambulance stuck in the snow and ice. Michael Rowland was in that ambulance. Nothing brings the value of friendship into focus like a threat to a friend. 

    By Dan Conaway March 05, 2021
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    Opinion: We all need the bridge to Binghampton

    Binghampton is at the very center of our city but far from the center of our attention. We drive through it en masse every day on Walnut Grove and Sam Cooper, largely ignoring the decline to our left and right.

    By Dan Conaway February 26, 2021
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    Opinion: Still crazy. Still right.

    The fight continues to easily access our history, to stand on our oldest ground above our best view of the Mississippi, to make traffic Downtown make sense.

    By Dan Conaway February 19, 2021
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    Opinion: Driving us crazy

    It’s one of the more interesting things about daily life in Memphis, and one that just might kill you. We can’t drive. Worse. We’re proud of it.

    By Dan Conaway February 12, 2021
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    Opinion: Our kids are under house arrest

    Dan Conaway: “Our kids, Memphis kids, our tomorrow, have to get back in classrooms. Today. Period. Every day they don’t is another day falling further behind.”

    By Dan Conaway February 05, 2021
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    In memoriam: Ode to the olive boat captain

    On John Simmons’ last visit, Carnival Memphis presented him their highest honor. That’s particularly interesting since John was instrumental in founding Curbi, the Carnival society named for those who stood on the curb and watched the Carnival parades go by.

    By Dan Conaway January 31, 2021
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    Opinion: A century of campfires, warming a century of leadership

    As a scout, it’s up to you. If the food you make is inedible, you and your fellow scouts don’t eat. If you pitch your tent in the wrong place, you and your tentmate are going to get wet. If you don’t reach down to help, no one else climbs up.

    By Dan Conaway January 29, 2021
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    Opinion: This time, Georgia moved the chains

    A UT devotee remembers a heart-stopping 1968 game, but says, “This time around, I’m a Georgia fan.”

    By Dan Conaway January 22, 2021
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    Opinion: To those who ‘circle the drain,’ thanks

    Citizens all over greater Memphis – all over the country – watch over things every day, caring enough about all of us to make sure the greater good is served by the maintenance of the things we care about.

    By Dan Conaway January 15, 2021

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