Catch up on the political heavyweights and find out what's free at this week's Texas Tribune Festival.
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is its ACL Fest. But it's really more like homecoming weekend, where everybody who needs just one more reason to come to Austin and call it"work" flocks into town, assesses the state of our tacos and barbecue, and marvels at how Texas manages to make itself relevant to every election cycle. You kinda need to take it in live, is what we're saying; after two virtual years that went pretty well but were just not the same, the festival is back in Downtown Austin Sept. 22-24.
When TribFest first started to roll out its 2022 speakers and programs a few months back, one could be forgiven for not being awestruck, as a lot of the ordinary panels are fixtures – legislative previews, deep dives into issues like health care or justice reform or immigration, interviews with the candidates in even-numbered years, the meat and potatoes of this kind of ideas event and a useful endeavor for people who do Texas politics for a living.
The Texas Tribune, which is free to read and only charges for this one event all year, is well-connected now in the ideas-fest circuit and can safely hold its closing keynote slot open long enough for it to be filled by, who will be back in prime time four days later at the next Jan. 6 hearing, after a whole new stupid but also frightening Apesh*t scandal has engulfed the political world.
, will get worked over Friday by a panel moderated by our friend Steven Pedigo, director of the LBJ Urban Lab at UT-Austin. Often, panels like this are just filled with politicians from the areas in question, but this one has actual land use, public finance, and planning experts as well as politicos, so that'll be fun.And this one on Saturday probably needs no elaboration:"Mississippi Today Presents: Mississippi Is the Future of Texas.
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