Buzzy governors bookend one of our strongest programs ever.
We’re testing using AI-powered tools to provide an audio version of this story. While this audio recording is machine-generated, the story was written by human journalists.Two of the nation’s most accomplished and buzzed-about governors — Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer and Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin — will open and close this year’s festival. They’ll reflect on their careers and successes at the helm and provide perspective on one of the most unpredictable election cycles in American history.
Whitmer sits down with Texas Tribune co-founder Evan Smith at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5 at the Paramount Theatre to discuss her new memoir, her key victories in Michigan and the importance of every vote. Published this summer, “True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between” delves into the rising Democratic star’s career, as a lawyer and legislator to her 2018 election as governor, and the actions she’s taken to lead the state through a series of unprecedented crises.
We close out TribFest with Youngkin in conversation with Smith, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 at the Paramount. We’ll discuss the governor’s record in the commonwealth, the state of the Republican Party and a conservative policy agenda for America. As governor, Youngkin has ushered in investments in education, facilitated economic investments and business expansions to reinvigorate job growth and opportunity, and delivered $5 billion in tax relief for Virginians. He launched efforts to transform Virginia’s behavioral health system, worked to revamp the state’s child care system and developed Virginia’s “All-American, All-of-the-Above” energy approach.
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