Paul Flahive
Paul Flahive is the technology and entrepreneurship reporter for Texas Public Radio. He has worked in public media across the country, from Iowa City and Chicago to Anchorage and San Antonio.
As producer of "The Source," Paul was honored with two 2015 Lone Star Awards from the Houston Press Club — one for Best Talk Program and the other for Best Public Affairs Segment. In 2016, he was honored with an Anson Jones Award. In 2018, he was honored with the Barbara Jordan Award.
His work has been heard on NPR, Marketplace, Interfaith Voices, and elsewhere in public media.
Paul created TPR's live storytelling program, Worth Repeating.
Texas Public Radio is supported by contributors to the Technology and Entrepreneurship News Fund, including The 80/20 Foundation, rackspace, The Elmendorf Family Fund, University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship, SecureLogix, United Services Automobile Association and Giles Design Bureau.
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The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will be fined $100,000 a day until it comes into compliance on two remedial court orders. -
Four court filings, hundreds of pages and thousands of serious incidents illustrated how ill prepared the state is when directly caring for youth — a job their workers were never meant to do. -
Texas has been in litigation over its foster care system for nearly 13 years. A federal court is now weighing whether to impose hefty fines over the system's inability to make progress.
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The family of Correctional Officer Jovian Motley plan to protest at the prison where he died because they said the state has not provided answers to what happened. -
This week, three former San Antonio, TX police officers were indicted in the shooting death of a woman with mental health issues.
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More than 800 youth this year have spent time in unlicensed placements throughout Texas.
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Lawyers for the state’s foster care system tried to fend off contempt complaints stemming from alleged failures to observe several court orders from federal court monitors and plaintiffs in a case that stretches back 12 years. -
Jovian Motley worked a double shift that day. His mother said he should never have been in the cell where he died. -
Texas prison guards brutally beat an inmate in September, leaving him in a coma. Some inmates and former staff say there will be more use of force if an acute staffing shortage isn't fixed.
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Thirteen guards from a Texas prison have been fired or resigned after the beating of an inmate that left him hospitalized — likely for the rest of his life. Several eyewitnesses along with former staff said staffing and training issues are leading to more violence. TDCJ denied the incident was due to staffing or training.
