Speaker: Columnist Chris Tomlinson

Chris Tomlinson is a columnist for the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News, focusing on politics money and life in Texas. Tomlinson’s commentary appears twice a week and he write’s a weekly newsletter drawing on his 30 years of reporting experience. The Texas Managing Editors named Tomlinson opinion writer of the year for 2021.

He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth and Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families who Share the Tomlinson Name-One White, One Black.

Previously, Tomlinson was the supervisory correspondent for The Associated Press in Austin, responsible for state government and political reporting in Texas. From 2001-2009, he was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and served as the East Africa bureau chief in Nairobi, Kenya.