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.”
Topic: Dan Conaway
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May 2024
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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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March 2024
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Conaway: Ghosts rising within
Research has revealed that Nathan Bedford Forrest’s slave pens were originally behind Calvary Episcopal Church, but in the 1880s, the church expanded to the east over the site of the pens.
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Conaway: In the end, there’s honey
All across Memphis, like the hives of Thistle & Bee, people are hard at work to bring fellow Memphians back from the ravages of poverty, abuse, neglect and the companions of those conditions — crime, addiction and exploitation.
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Conaway: Calvary’s Waffle Shop is how Memphis does Lent
The mayonnaise is richer than Elon Musk.
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February 2024
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Conaway: A letter to a city from a friend
“The Boys and Girls Clubs have moved in, connected with and changed some of our most troubled communities. We could help so many more.”
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Conaway: Guns to Gardens — Despair to hope, death to life
At an upcoming event, unwanted guns will be turned into something that plants new seeds and instills new hope.
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Conaway: Deep thoughts. Well, deep enough
“Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.”
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Conaway: Health care theft is on for Tuesday. Grab your wallet
Your City Council has voted twice already — unanimously, through the body’s consent agenda — to give themselves health care for life. On Tuesday, if they vote for it a third time, it will become law.
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January 2024
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Conaway: Their Chamber, or ours?
“And whoever — singular or plural — made the decision to bypass all elected bodies, kneecap the brand-new city mayor and invite Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee to come plant the state flag in City Hall does not speak for us.”
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Conaway: Gov. Lee wants you to pay tuition at MUS and Hutchison
“Lee thinks his voucher program will become a national model. The lies told to get it, and the threats and pressure brought to bear, have already made it a national embarrassment.”
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Conaway: Love to hate to in-between, a mixed review in 15 seconds
“I got in touch with Harry and told him my idea. Conduct an experiment. Submit my column ‘Pig Ultimate’ to ChatGPT and ask for three different 100-word reviews: one very positive, one negative and one balanced.”
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Conaway: You’re being robbed. For life.
Martavius Jones has just snuck into your house through an unlocked window and stolen a knee replacement from your dark living room.
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December 2023
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Conaway: Tall and ugly, a beautiful promise
“If you’re looking for something to look forward to in the New Year, I’ll give you two. Just look up.”
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Conaway: A tree. A life.
The worn Big Bird and Cookie Monster, the Scotties and Flamingos, the typewriter and macramé angel, the stuff kids made, weren’t for the marketing target audience, they were for us.
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Conaway: Mumpower power is JB Smiley’s model
“JB Smiley Jr., or any local elected official, has no business in the board rooms of the University of Memphis. If the city council ran the university, chaos would be the only curriculum, and a BS degree would not stand for Bachelor of Science.”
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Conaway: It’s just common sense; we’re killing ourselves
“If something is injuring and assaulting us, if something has become the common denominator in virtually all manner of violent crime, if something aids criminals ... if something is killing us, the city council’s job is to do something about it now.”
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Conaway: AI knows too much
AI already knows too much, and the controlled application of that knowledge is everything.
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November 2023
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Conaway: Are you ready for Christmas?
A chance encounter reminds that this is a time for the arrival of hope — at breakfast counters and in hearts.
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The To-Do List: Holiday lights, holiday shopping and ice skating at AutoZone
This week, there’s a Miracle on Broad Avenue, Lord T & Eloise get aristocrunk at Railgarten and we’ve got a hot tip on photos with Krampus.
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Conaway: In winning race to bottom today, Tennessee will lose tomorrow
“No state, not one, has ever rejected this federal education funding. No state. Not one.”
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Conaway: She won an Emmy; I fixed the Keurig; give it up for us
“I have three Addys, the national award the American Advertising Federation considers their Emmy. Not an Emmy.”
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Conaway: Art isn’t our decoration; it’s our measure
“I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.”
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October 2023
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Conaway: Chicken Tossing Days and Dog Dipping Days, a prophetic tale
Cas Walker wasn’t in denial about his outrageous business practices and politics, he knew they were outrageous, and he was proud of every one of them.
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