Joseph Leahy
Joseph Leahy anchors morning newscasts for NPR's statewide public radio collaborative, Texas Newsroom. He began his career in broadcast journalism as a reporter for St. Louis Public Radio in 2011. The following year, he helped launch Delaware's first NPR station, WDDE, as an afternoon newscaster and host. Leahy returned to St. Louis in 2013 to anchor local newscasts during All Things Considered and produce news on local and regional issues. In 2016, he took on a similar role as the local Morning Edition newscaster at KUT in Austin, before moving over to the Texas Newsroom.
Leahy has a master’s degree in journalism from Emerson College and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Missouri. He grew up migrating almost annually with his parents and four siblings between rural northwest Missouri and the suburbs of Los Angeles.
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Abortion rights advocates and legal experts say it's the final step in making access to abortion in the state impossible — except under the rarest of circumstances. It also marks a significant victory for the anti-abortion movement and Texas Republican lawmakers. -
El operador de la red eléctrica de Texas está solicitando a las centrales eléctricas que pospongan el mantenimiento programado para asegurarse de que están en línea para satisfacer la creciente demanda durante lo que se espera que sea un fin de semana excepcionalmente cálido. -
Texas’ electric grid operator is requesting power plants postpone scheduled maintenance to ensure they’re online to meet surging demand during what is expected to be an exceptionally warm weekend.
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State and federal agencies have confirmed Texas’ first case of a “highly pathogenic” avian influenza, but commercial egg and poultry operations have so far avoided outbreaks and widespread losses seen in other regions. -
The state's top expert said nearly 99 percent of the population has developed some immune response to COVID-19. But other public health experts caution the virus can be unpredictable. -
Un nuevo análisis de datos del Centro de Investigación Inmobiliaria de Texas trata de descartar las suposiciones de que los recién llegados a Texas son los que están haciendo subir los precios de las viviendas. -
A new data analysis from the Texas Real Estate Research Center seeks to dismiss assumptions about Texas transplants driving up residential real estate.
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The Texas Attorney General is defending the governor’s decision to order the state’s child welfare agency to investigate parents, and health care professionals for providing certain gender-affirming medical treatments to transgender kids. -
In January, a prescribed burn at the park got out of control, conjuring memories of the Bastrop County Complex fire in 2011. Now, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says it agrees with all recommendations issued by an independent panel reviewing the incident. -
Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to the The Texas Education Agency Monday, directing it to set up a task force of experts and stakeholders to work on solutions to ending an ongoing shortage of public school teachers.
