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05.02.2026 18:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2@lisafalkenberg.bsky.social
VP/Editor of Opinion, Houston Chronicle. Three kids. Two Pulitzers. Countless houseplants. One home: Texas. Optimist by necessity.
With brutal tactics and one six-letter word, ICE and Border Patrol have undermined local policing www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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โAnd experts said that they never heard of a public school district giving away its curriculum, developed with district experts and tax-payer resources, for free to another school system.โ Great reporting by @nusaiba.bsky.social
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โAnyone can impose mandates, especially with practically a free hand by the state. Only leaders can get others to follow and sustain changes long after the change agent is gone.โ
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HISDโs takeover superintendent Mike Miles is using an unfinished, unvetted curriculum in virtually all of the districtโs 274 campuses. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
19.12.2025 16:43 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Mike Miles says the 'science of reading' justifies limiting books in HISD. Experts say no.
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Wonderful to join my former Houston Chronicle team last night to accept the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing! Congrats Sharon Steinmann, Raj Mankad and Leah Binkovitz!
31.10.2025 13:56 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โI feel like a spy.โ In Mike Milesโ HISD, teachers and students say reading books is a secret plot
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Arnold Schwarzenegger told me weโre getting the redistricting battles in Texas and California all wrong
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Exclusive: Hidalgo staffer says he was โblindsidedโ by the use of children in chaotic meeting www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
13.08.2025 14:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Texas Democrats fleeing Trumpโs redistricting didnโt abandon us. Gov. Greg Abbott did.
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Trumpโs Texas redistricting power grab makes Tom DeLayโs look tame
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Column: So many didnโt have to die. Texas must fix the failures the Hill Country floods exposed
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Thank you @lisafalkenberg.bsky.social for this much-needed piece.
09.07.2025 17:24 โ ๐ 202 ๐ 75 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 4Camp Mystic families are hurting enough. Stop the hate, hoaxes and rumors
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Thank you. Iโll flag it.
04.07.2025 18:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks Ken. Iโm glad it resonated with you.
04.07.2025 18:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Such a hopeful image! I love it.
02.07.2025 20:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks for sharing!
02.07.2025 20:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โThe real America, especially these days with our discord and distrust, our families divided by politics, our universities under siege, our peaceful protests attended by the National Guard, our Home Depots the targets of ICE raids, is more like the national anthem performed by Jimi Hendrix.โ
02.07.2025 20:09 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This July 4th, Iโm honoring two national anthems โ one hopeful, one haunting www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
02.07.2025 18:22 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2Itโs a bittersweet tale. John Sharp would have made a great Texas governor but our political system wouldnโt let him because he was a Democrat. So he became a great chancellor instead.
Chancellor John Sharp's legacy shows Texas' loss was A&M's gain
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Not exactly. The piece explains how Texas has moved away from FEMA for immediate disaster response. We have state resources that other states may not have. Weโll still need FEMA for recovery and I think that even if the agency is reinvented, grants to states and individuals will still be there.
18.06.2025 17:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0New column. Could FEMAโs chaos trigger another Hurricane Katrina? โAinโt happeninโ in Texas,โ says top official
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My column: Houston's No Kings protesters gave Trump hell, not help
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New column. Exclusive: RFK Jr. ousts a respected Houston doctor from CDC vaccine advisory committee
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Banning THC in Texas? The issue isnt as simple as youโd think. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
28.05.2025 15:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This didnโt have to happen. When will Houston leaders demand Union Pacific curb train traffic when kids are trying to get to school?
Student killed crossing tracks near Milby High
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Joe Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden will justify Trump's authoritarian impulses | Editorial
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Whitmire must save Houston from a California-style homeless crisis. Give us shelter | Editorial
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