Talking Feds: Kamala for the Prosecution Podcast panelists: Ellen Rosenblum, Attorney General of Oregon, visits with attendees after the podcast “Talking Feds”. Also pictured are these panelists: Katie Phang of MSNBC’s “The Katie Phang Show”; Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota; and Harry Litman, host of the “Talking Feds” podcast and Senior Legal Columnist for… Read More Texas Tribune Festival: Talking Feds Podcast
Sarah Longwell and David Simis: Who the Voters Really Are Sarah Longwell, Bulwark pubisher. tells #Tribfest24 who are currently the big influencers pushing Trump with 2024 voters: “Fox News? C’mon! Fox News is doing Gods Work compared to these online rightwing influencers!” Her remark was said to make a comparison to the damage being caused by so-called… Read More Texas Tribune Festival: More panels and events
Panelists The Guardian Presents: Donald Trump vs. the DOJ. Panelists: Katie Phang, Host of “The Katie Phang Show,” MSNBC; Katie Benner, Reporter, The New York Times; Joyce Vance, Distinguished Professor at University of Alabama School of Law and Former U.S. Attorney; Hugo Lowell, Senior Political Correspondent, The Guardian; and Frank Figliuzzi, Retired Assistant Director, FBI… Read More Texas Tribune Festival: Donald Trump vs. the DOJ
Memories of the White House by LBJ’s daughter Luci Baines Johnson and Katy Rogers discussed first ladies and traded stories. Luci Baines Johnson is the daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson and has lived a life of public service. White House correspondent Katie Rogers has worked at The New York Times since 2014. Rogers has… Read More Texas Tribune Festival 2024: Luci Baines Johnson
Uvalde Roland Gutierrez is carrying a lot of pain. He will not share too much of what he saw in Uvalde with the parents who lost their children on May 24, 2022, when a teenager with an assault weapon entered Robb Elementary School and murdered 19 fourth-graders and two of their teachers. Gutierrez will not… Read More “IT’S JUST SICK.” Roland Gutierrez, determined to stop Texas GOP brutality and corruption
Dozens of panels presented what was cutting edge in 2016. Companies including 6SensorLab, Admetsys, and Noninvasix. 6SensorLab described a device in development that could detect and report on the chemical composition of a sample of food called NIMA. Iskander Smit explained the research about the use of haptics placed on the human wrist. Body data… Read More South by Southwest 2016: Technology
Parking right up front at Texas Tribune Festival (at AT&T Conference Center at UT Austin). Is the Texas fracking boom over? Chaos is “behind us”, says panelist Fracking: South Texas will never be the same as it was The Tribune Festival The event has spread across the campus, so my first stop was Welsh Hall, where… Read More Texas Tribune Festival 2015
Ted Cruz under fire at the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival. Lots of suits here but the boo’s, so far, at earlier events, were from conservatives. Cruz goes one-on-one with Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz. Ted Cruz chooses racism at the Texas Tribune Festival when he calls undocumented workers and their families “illegals” and suggests… Read More Cruzin’ off the rails with Ted Cruz
Can the Center Hold? To be (in the center) or not to be? Thus is the question today discussed with Evan Smith (Tribfest) with those listed above. Quotable quotes: The system is dominated by money. We don’t have any idea where we are headed. Republicans are talking nonsensical garbage. Hutchinson – redistributing and gerrymandering. The primary… Read More Left of center: is there a Texas political “center” and how’s it doing?
Michael Burgess Garnet Coleman Sarah Davis Kyle Janek Charles Schwertner Charles Ornstein (mod.) (Update: This panel was packed and during the open questions section, the audience was extremely energized over the issues, going from laud applause to outright boos to panelists who were opposed to the Affordable Care Act. One audience member added that he was surprised that even… Read More Healthcare: broken promises, broken state, broken healthcare system
The Austin Club110 E. Ninth St.Austin, TX 78701 Thursday, April 4, 20137:30 – 9 a.m.With the way Texas pays for its roads under the spotlight this session, join state Sen. Robert Nichols and state Rep. Larry Phillips for a conversation about transportation with Tribune reporter Aman Batheja. This event was sponsored by CH2M Hill, and… Read More Texas transportation discussion with Robert Nichols and Larry Phillips
Panel Discussion: Deirdre Delisi, Michael Morris, Larry Phillips, Nicolas Rubio, Phil Wilson, with Aman Batheja (mod.) Texas Tribune Festival has once again brought TxDOT Director Phil Wilson, along with other heavy hitters in Texas transportation to the UT Austin campus to discuss the future of Texas roads. What does our future hold? I am as curious as the next traveler to… Read More The future of transportation in Texas: dystopia? We need to work a 12-step on this, Mr. Wilson
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