Wendy Lane Cook

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Wendy Lane Cook is the deputy managing editor of The Dispatch and is based in San Antonio, Texas. Before joining the company in 2024, she was the managing editor of the San Antonio Report. She also has worked as an editor at The Washington Post and as a writer and editor at the Associated Press. When she's not editing stories, you can find Wendy managing her small herd of felines or exploring a book store. She and her husband have two daughters.

Skip to content When Cara Sager and her husband Brian visited San Antonio in December 2021 ahead of a job-related move, she discovered the wait list for the local day care center she’d hoped to use was an untenable eight months. This meant Sager, a 34-year-old physical therapist, wouldn’t have child care for her infant daughter when she was scheduled to start a new job here. “I thought, ‘This is just insanity,’” she recalled.