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About this Author

Lisa Falkenberg is the Houston Chronicle’s metro columnist. She writes Wednesdays and Fridays on topics ranging from politics to education to the death penalty. A sixth-generation Texan, Lisa is the daughter of a truck driver and a homemaker, born and raised in Seguin, where her interest in reporting was born at the high school newspaper. While studying journalism at the University of Texas, she covered the Texas Legislature for two news bureaus. She joined The Associated Press’ Dallas bureau in 2001, eventually becoming a regional writer covering Dallas and East Texas. She was named Texas AP Writer of the Year in 2004. Falkenberg joined the Houston Chronicle in 2005, first in the Austin bureau, then moving to Houston in 2007 to write the column. She has earned several local and state awards for her column-writing, and has been named the Chronicle’s Commentator of the Year. In 2014, Falkenberg was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. She lives with her husband and two daughters in the Heights.