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USDA rejects Texas ag department’s fly trap to prevent screwworm larvae from infecting cattle

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is trading barbs with the Trump Administration over its response to a parasitic pest that continues to make its way north in Mexico, and could potentially threaten the state’s $15 billion cattle industry if it crosses the border.

 

Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing university professors’ influence

Conservative Texas lawmakers and power brokers in recent years have criticized university professors for being “woke” activists who indoctrinate college students with far-left teachings and ideas.

 

UT System will expand free tuition and fees to undergraduates whose families make $100,000 or less

The University of Texas System is expanding its free tuition program so undergraduate students whose families make $100,000 or less will receive free tuition and fees starting next fall.

 

UNT faculty slam university for removing references to race and equity in course names

Katherine Mansfield found out that the title of her spring semester course at the University of North Texas had been changed via email.

 

Patrick says Texas Legislature will review Deloitte’s contracts after public loan project scandal

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Tuesday that the Legislature will review all of the state’s existing contracts with the firm Deloitte after it selected a company whose CEO was previously convicted of an “embezzlement scheme” as a project finalist for a low-interest, taxpayer-funded loan program to build n