It’s being billed as a Solutions Showdown. Voice of San Diego’s annual Politifest is slated for Saturday, Oct. 4 at the University of San Diego. Voice of San Diego's CEO Scott Lewis spoke with KPBS to spotlight what’s on tap for this year’s political public summit.

So, Scott, this year's Politifest is called Solutions Showdown. What does that mean? And why did you decide to format it that way?

Lewis: Well, we normally have a bunch of panels, discussions and speeches and such. And what we really wanted to do this time is focus on the problems and confront the problems — but offer solutions. So we're asking every panelist now to give a presentation on what they would do to solve the problem that their panel is about. And then we're going to have them discuss after a little bit of moderate

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