Lisa Falkenberg

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.

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. 

Texas AG Ken Paxton looks tough joining Trump's crusade against cashless bail. But Harris County officials say it could backfire, clogging the jail and delaying prosecution of dangerous...

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.

Lina Hidalgo staffer fears that a chaotic meeting over an early childhood education tax could set back local advocacy.

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.  

Texas officials and Hill Country leaders knew the risks of flooding along the Guadalupe. Warnings went unheeded, flood warnings, river gauges and sirens unfunded — and more than 130 Texans died.

Texas Hill Country's Camp Mystic was a refuge until the floods came – one made of water, the other made of lies. Grieving parents face social media rumors, Internet hoaxes and political...

Whitney Houston's dazzling "Star-Spangled Banner" gives America hope and Jimi Hendrix's rendition at Woodstock gives us a warning. 

Amid firings, departures and deficit warnings, Trump's FEMA isn't ready for hurricane season. Nim Kid, head of Texas Emergency Management Division, explains what that means for Texas.

Health Secretary Kennedy cited conflicts of interest in gutting the CDC's advisory panel. Houston's Dr. Julie Boom didn't have conflicts. Only vaccine expertise and a passion for protecting kids. 

Falkenberg: Mosquitoes torture us. An A&M scientist gleefully returns the favor

Gov. Greg Abbott's veto of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's THC ban would enable Texas' chaotic cannabis market; his signature could enable a hemp black market.

Amid revelations of President Biden’s decline, fallout from the sudden deaths of Sylvester Turner and Sheila Jackson Lee shows what’s at stake when aging politicians can’t finish the job.

I celebrate the Fourth of July even as I mourn the loss of independence for Texas women,...

Gov. Greg Abbott is trying to cast blame on others for Dallas salon owner’s jailing,...

Surreal is one of those great misused and abused clichés of convenience. But maybe for good reason. Right now, I can’t think of any other word to describe the feeling of trying to process another day of discordant messages and disparate responses to this pandemic. Each hour of coronavirus mayhem and social distancing, reality seems to shift and warp. One talking head says the spread of a deadly virus is hastening and we should stay hunkered down. Another points to a $17 million tent hospital sit…

There’s no stronger signal, save closing the schools, that we’re in uncharted...

He was 11. He was three blocks from home. He was stabbed 20 times in broad daylight. For three years, nobody knew who did it. For three years, Josue Flores’ family went without justice. For three years, the community of near Northside lived in fear and frustration. “There wasn’t a day that people did not speak about it,” said activist Stella Mireles, who was inspired by Josue’s death to start the Safe Walk Home program for the neighborhood’s schoolchildren. “You saw the children walking home and…

Moments after Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh’s trial ended with him convicted and sentenced in the 2013 rape of an incapacitated female patient at Ben Taub county hospital, he was seen enjoying lunch with this family on a sunny courthouse patio in downtown Houston. Sheikh got 10 years’ probation, the maximum allowed, and he must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. But the fact that he escaped jail time and had a $10,000 fine waived by a Harris County jury outraged people across the nation.…