Conaway: General Assembly provides plenty of column fodder
The statehouse in Nashville on election night, Aug. 4, 2022. (Ian Round/Daily Memphian file)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
The Tennessee General Assembly is the sure-fire cure for writer’s block. The problem isn’t getting 750 to 1,000 words out of whatever they’re up to; the problem is stopping.
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