Lisa Falkenberg
@ChronFalkenberg
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Senior Columnist @HoustonChron. Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Native Texan. Mom. Newsletter: https://t.co/etVXYHyroC…
Houston, Texas
Joined August 2009
This is really cool. Thank you to @MelanieLawson13 and the great team at @abc13houston for telling the story of my journey from Seguin,Texas to the @PulitzerPrizes. https://t.co/ajaMVs5Pcc
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Lisa Falkenberg is now a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, which is a record matched only by renowned writers, including Edward Albee and Carl Sandberg.
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Wonderful news! Thank you to the Houston Chronicle Editorial Board for staying on this story. After weeks of heartbreak, a judge answers Maria’s prayers for her son | Editorial https://t.co/D86GbhUpFi
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Maria Garcia's son Emmanuel was detained at a federal immigration center. Now a judicial order could answer her prayers, writes the editorial board.
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Mike Miles says the 'science of reading' justifies limiting books in HISD. Experts say no. https://t.co/GiTnjGNl3A
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The Science of Reading emphasizes phonics but does it support Mike Miles' sidelining libraries and books in HISD schools? I asked literacy experts Maryanne Wolf, Emily Hanford and...
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So proud to accept the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing alongside my former Houston Chronicle team! Congrats @RajMankad117001 @leahbink and @SLSteinmann !
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Have questions for Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath? Sign up to join my live Zoom interview with him tomorrow.
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“We're not losing teachers because they don't like change — as Mike Miles often claims. We're losing them because they don't like change that hurts kids. A curriculum that denies actual books to children cannot be healthy, no matter what the test scores purport to say.”
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‘I feel like a spy.’ In Mike Miles’ HISD, teachers and students say reading books is a secret plot https://t.co/strSHbrzaL
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First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.
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My column: Tears, tests and scant support — why this HISD kindergarten teacher left, in her own words https://t.co/My3j6i0JZh
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Sarah Rios was thrilled to be a teacher at her childhood campus. She wasn't prepared for the conditions that awaited her in Superintendent Mike Miles' HISD.
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Yesterday on @hereandnow @NPR I explained how the pharmacy chains make their vaccine policies for at the corporate level and if things at Dept HHS are ambiguous - or in this case completely disorganized and chaotic - it would have filter down effects, case in point here.
My wife has Stage 4 lung cancer. She is one of the people the COVID vaccine actually helps. Thanks to the current mess at HHS, CVS is unable to get her the vaccine.
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This is a brave, well-written op-ed. Kudos to opinion team for publishing. I believed in Ken Paxton. Here are three reasons why I can’t anymore. | Opinion https://t.co/K21PEawNaS via @houstonchron
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I have lost my faith in Ken Paxton. He betrayed his wife, retaliated against his own staff, used taxpayer dollars to shield himself, and manipulated children’s issues to serve his campaign.
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I’m with Arnold. Rigging political maps is never the answer, not even to beat Trump. Because no one can answer the question: where does the cheating end? Full interview: https://t.co/EqHL4mkFFu
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It’s just one measure. I’ve cited it before but you’re right, it’s simplistic to expect a mirror. NYT did a really good job here looking at gerrymandering in California vs Texas:
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Republicans claim California is more gerrymandered than Texas, based on a simple partisan calculation. Experts say such a comparison is one of many useful but imperfect measures to quantify gerryma...
@floplag @ChronFalkenberg Anyone who uses the argument that representative ratio should mirror percentage of respective voters by party are basically saying that we shouldn’t bother to have an election and actually allow us to vote.
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Schwarzenegger is vowing a fight: “I just say very simply, it is very wrong what they’re doing to Texas and it is very wrong what they’re trying to do in California,” Schwarzenegger told me. “It is not at all serving the people. It is serving the party.” @ChronFalkenberg
The former California governor says Trump's plan to rig Texas redistricting maps for Republicans doesn't justify his Democratic successor Gavin Newsom gerrymandering blue seats in retaliation.
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“It’s not a battle between Democrats and Republicans. This is a battle between the politicians and the people. I go with the people.” Link to whole interview with @Schwarzenegger below.
Arnold Schwarzenegger joins Houston Chronicle senior Texas columnist @ChronFalkenberg for a conversation on politics and gerrymandering: https://t.co/VsvQVj9FQT
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Arnold Schwarzenegger told me we’re getting the redistricting battles in Texas and California all wrong https://t.co/daBUnuf2fG
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The former California governor says Trump's plan to rig Texas redistricting maps for Republicans doesn't justify his Democratic successor Gavin Newsom gerrymandering blue seats in retaliation.
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If only every politician/former politician felt this way. Our democracy would work the way it’s supposed to: 1 person = 1 vote Voters choose politicians Politicians don’t choose voters
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What's the end game for Texas Democrats? Sign up now to join me today at noon for HC Live as I talk with state Rep. Ann Johnson of Houston and state Rep. Linda Garcia of Dallas about next steps in their fight against Republican redistricting.
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My column today. Exclusive: Hidalgo staffer says he was ‘blindsided’ by the use of children in chaotic meeting https://t.co/lD1xHZXNHJ via @houstonchron
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Lina Hidalgo staffer fears that a chaotic meeting over an early childhood education tax could set back local advocacy.
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Texas Democrats fleeing Trump’s redistricting didn’t abandon us. Gov. Greg Abbott did. https://t.co/KreNBqT68f
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Gov. Greg Abbott is suing to remove state Rep. Gene Wu from office for leading a Democrat walkout over Trump's redistricting plan. But Texans know who really abandoned us.
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