Horns Down: Texas' poverty-by-county numbers too high.
An interactive feature published in the Texas Tribune on Tuesday highlights the number of children in poverty in each state county, as well...
Horns Down: No funding, no research
On Monday, The Daily Texan reported that ongoing federal budget cuts are having a negative impact on University researchers in terms of grant cancellations, project...
“Today I think many journalists are independent of their bosses and editors, but not of the newsroom. An independent person thinks for himself or herself, even if the world thinks differently.”...
As thousands of students prepare to fly home for the holidays once again, a business deal occurring this month could have a major effect on America’s airline industry for years to come. Less than...
Horns Up: Texas national guard grants same-sex benefits
Last Tuesday, the Texas National Guard announced that it would begin offering marriage benefits to same-sex couples, in accordance with the Pentagon’s...
Last Tuesday, the Obama administration proposed a new set of rules that would crack down on the use of “dark money,” or anonymously donated money, in political elections.
Though the...
Horns Down: Voter ID yet to prove its value
Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News reported that thousands of voters had to sign affidavits or cast provisional ballots in the Nov. 5 election — the...
“It’s an intersection of being [non-traditional] students, being older and being transfer students. They have the same issues as other transfer students adjusting to this campus, but many also...
Horns Down: ZBT replaces lewd mural with... another lewd mural
On Friday, the Daily Texan reported that the fraternity Zeta Beta Tau, commonly known as ZBT, painted over lewd murals depicting...
On Tuesday of last week, Student Government passed a joint resolution with the Senate of College Councils approving a vote of “no confidence” against Regent Wallace Hall, who is currently under...
Horns Up: Bush paintings are ‘flying off the shelves’
Former President George W. Bush is selling his artwork on a limited-edition Christmas ornament, which, according to a shop assistant...
Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board publishes a selection of tweets and online comments culled from The Daily Texan’s website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct...
Editor’s Note: Fifty years ago Friday, while traveling in a motorcade through downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was shot from a sixth-floor window. Kennedy was immediately rushed to Parkland...
Horns Up: Houston mayor offers benefits to same-sex spouses of city employees
Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced on Wednesday that marriage benefits for city employees would now be offered to those...
Horns Down: Perry's latest conflict of interest
AAA Texas, a subsidiary of the Automobile Club of Southern California, is currently in negotiations to receive an economic development funding grant...
Horns Up: Student District finally finalized
On Monday, the Austin Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission approved a new district map of Austin that includes a district in which 45 percent of...
Editor’s note: This is the third editorial in a series covering the lasting impact and future outlook of the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas, or SWIFT, which was established in a statewide...
Horns Down: Young Conservatives mistake hatred for discussion.
Every time a national news network pulls a stock photo of the UT Tower to illustrate an article on the thoughtless actions of the Young...
Horns Up: More Texas women in agriculture
According to an article published by the Texas Tribune on Nov. 15, the changing face of the farming industry in Texas is trending toward a more feminine one....
On Nov. 12, Attorney General Greg Abbott gave his second policy speech since filing his candidacy for governor. The 25-minute-long speech, one of his most detailed yet, received a standing ovation from...
Horns Down: New bike share forgot students
On Wednesday, city officials announced that Austin would introduce its first bike-sharing program on Dec. 21. The bike program, officials promised, will benefit...
Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct...
Editor’s Note: Nash Horne is a communication studies senior from Austin who is currently serving as a non-voting member of the UT System Board of Regents, a position to which he was appointed by...
Editor’s Note: On Nov. 5, Texas voters overwhelmingly approved the creation of a permanent fund for water infrastructure projects, as well as a $2 billion initial investment in that fund. State political...
When, in the spring of 2011, the battle first began between UT President Williams Power Jr. and the so-called “rogue regents,” the players, and their motives, at least seemed identifiable:...
Horns Up: Theatre and dance reconsiders guest-casting decision
The University’s theatre and dance department reversed its decision to cast guest actors (instead of students) for nine out of 12...
Horns Down: LBJ Library to start charging admission.
Starting on Tuesday, the LBJ Library will start charging admission for the first time in its 41-year history, according to the Austin American-Statesman....
On Nov. 1, this paper reported on a controversy within the Graduate Student Assembly surrounding the amount of money that the organization spends on social activities — like the nearly $8,500 carnival...
Horns Up: Trans fats a thing of the past
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will begin banning trans fats from American food, nationalizing a movement that has been taking...
Making a deal with the devil
“I don’t have any policies to advance, but I do have a college to advance. I would go and talk to the devil himself, if necessary, to explain what a wonderful...
Horns Up: Ten for ten on the 2013 ballot.
On Nov. 5, Texas voters approved all nine constitutional amendments on the ballot. The Affordable Housing Bond, the only bond on the ballot in Austin, passed...
Texas voters overwhelmingly approved the creation of a permanent source of funding for water infrastructure projects and a $2 billion initial investment in that fund Tuesday. State political leaders like...
On Monday, this newspaper published a front-page story with the headline “Breaking the Silence.” That story was about sexual assault on the UT campus and how, despite growing awareness...
Horns Down: Texans clinging tightly to the right
Newsweek recently reported that the Republican U.S. state senator from Texas, John Cornyn, has been losing popularity in his home state since his decision...
Horns Up: UT keeps rent low for the postal service
According to an article published on the Daily Texan website Monday and in Tuesday’s paper, the United States Postal Service pays UT just $1...
On Tuesday, the polls open across Texas for the Nov. 5 ballot election, which boasts nine propositions for state constitutional amendments and, in Austin, one for the creation of an affordable housing...
On Tuesday, the polls will open across Texas for a ballot election containing propositions that confront issues ranging from water planning to reverse mortgages. Students can vote on campus at the Flawn...
Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments, along with direct submissions from readers. Our intention is to continue the tradition of the Firing...
The vice president comes to town
“[The National Domestic Violence Hotline] drop[s] somewhere around 50,000 calls. We need more people; we need more resources to be able to service the demonstrable...
Horns Up: Why would the UN want the Alamo, anyway?
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson had the correct reaction to the recent outbreak of Internet indignation over the prospect that the United Nations...
It’s been just over six months since an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West wiped out much of the town. While massive rebuilding efforts have been undertaken, the town has a long way to go before...
Horns Up: Longhorn Network offers military members free service
The Longhorn Network has announced that it will offer itself for free to anyone on a laptop, tablet or smartphone connecting from a .mil...
As of Tuesday, abortions performed after 20 weeks are illegal in the state of Texas. That change comes by way of House Bill 2, the same piece of omnibus abortion legislation that set the Texas Capitol...
Horns Down: HIV rates rise in Travis County
In an in-depth story on HIV infection rates in Travis County, the Austin American-Statesman reported Sunday that the county’s rate of new diagnoses...
Horns Up: Nigeria takes Ted Cruz to task.
Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joked at a Texas tea party event that the government’s website for the Affordable Care Act had been built...
Horns Up: SG votes to support undocumented students
Last night, amid a crowd of protesters, the Student Government Assembly passed by a vote of 18-9-2 a heavily-debated resolution in support of undocumented...
Editor’s note: This week, the Texas House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations has heard public testimony concerning UT System Regent Wallace Hall’s...
Early voting is now open for the Nov. 5 election, which includes nine proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution, along with different regional issues depending on location. Many of the issues are easy...
Horns Down: Aggies Still Aren’t Over it
Despite the fact that our 118-year-old rivalry with Texas A&M has been dead for over two years, the good folks over in Aggieland still haven’t...
Tuesday night, the Student Government Assembly will take up and consider a revised version of AR 16, a resolution in support of Undocumented Students and Undocumented Longhorns Week. The resolution is...
Every week, the Daily Texan Editorial team will sit down with a campus or community figure to ask them about campus issues. These conversations, edited and condensed for clarity, will run in the paper...
Horns Up: Wind energy project almost complete.
As the Texas Tribune reported on Monday, Texas’ Competitive Renewable Energy Zone, which seeks to connect the nation’s largest expanse of wind...
Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct...
At Tuesday night’s Student Government meeting, John Brown, a government sophomore and a College of Liberal Arts representative in the Student Government Assembly, stood and announced that members...
Horns Down: An immigration Rorschach test.
Texas county jails reported this month that they spent more than $150 million on the incarceration of over 130,000 undocumented immigrants over the past two...
Only yesterday, we wrote an editorial concerning the abysmal job the Texas state government has done of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In the editorial, which argued that Texas should be held accountable...
Pop quiz: Is the atmosphere a public resource that we all have the right to use? If you answered yes, congratulations, we think you’re absolutely right. If you answered no, you might work for the...
Horns Down: Aren't you running for comptroller?
On Monday, state Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy, released an ad in his campaign for Texas state comptroller. In the roughly minute-long piece, the...
Horns Up: OU Still Sucks (But this time we have proof)
The Longhorns sent the No. 10-ranked Oklahoma Sooners back to Norman with their tails between their legs on Saturday, and no one is more surprised...
OU still sucks
-From commenter “Jim” on the Daily Texan website in response to our editorial trash-talking the University of Oklahoma.
-Rebecca Neu (@TexasNeu) in response...
Open-access journals haven’t had an easy go of it lately. In its current special issue, the esteemed journal Science has published an article detailing how Harvard biologist John Bohannon duped more...
Editor’s Note: In the spirit of the University of Texas’ friendly rivalry with the University of Oklahoma, the editorial boards of The Daily Texan and The Oklahoma Daily have exchanged editorials....
Texas executes more people than any other state by a wide margin — more than the next five states on that list put together. On Wednesday, Texas will add another name to the list of inmates executed,...
Horns Up: Wal-Mart to stock more U.S.-made goods.
In a reversal of American businesses’ shift to cheaper labor markets overseas, discount retailer Wal-Mart has agreed to increase spending on U.S.-made...
On Monday, State Sen. and current candidate for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, released his first televised campaign ad, in which he vowed to both “secure the border” and “fight Obama.”...
For students frustrated with the political gridlock occurring at the federal level, the next month may offer a bit of relief from all the political disenchantment, at least as it relates to local politics....
Horns Down: I came here to see Wendy, not Kings of Leon.
After the Texas Tribune published an article on Saturday afternoon saying that Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, who announced her campaign for...
In almost exactly one month, the state of Texas will vote on one of the most important issues in its history. More important, certainly, than the much more publicized races for attorney general, lieutenant...
Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct...
Horns Up: Commissioners' commitment.
In interviews with the Texas Tribune, candidates for the Texas Railroad Commission have taken the incredibly selfless step of committing to a full six-year term...
Horns Down: Every time we turn around...
Student loan default rates have grown for the sixth year in a row, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday. The two-year default...
Horns Up: Rain, snow, sleet or shutdown, you'll get your mail
While many important federal agencies have closed their doors, we’re happy that the U.S. Postal Service isn’t one...
This Thursday, State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, is expected to announce whether she will seek the Democratic nomination for governor. All signs point to yes. We’re keeping our fingers crossed...
Horns Up: Voting victory at A&M Prarie View
After decades of fighting for a campus polling place, the students at Prairie View A&M University have finally won more convenient access to the ballot...
On Saturday, the citizen commission tasked with drawing the district lines for Austin’s new single-member City Council districts released a preliminary map. That map included the University-centric...
Horns Up: Exxon will provide same-sex benefits
Exxon Mobil has announced that it will start offering benefits to employees in same-sex marriages, in accordance with the Supreme Court decision overruling...
Over the weekend, the UT campus was overrun with plastic-badge-wearing festival-goers, all of them attending the Texas Tribune Festival, a three-day event featuring politicians and policy wonks from across...
In his poem “The Waste Land,” the Anglo-American poet T. S. Eliot famously wrote, “April is the cruellest month.” September, too, has been a particularly cruel month to Americans,...
Sex columns turn some on, others off
- From commenter “healthyhorn” on our website in response to Sexy Sally’s column on masturbation.
- From “Laurie/Blondie”...
On Tuesday, UT’s Student Government Assembly passed a resolution calling for the creation of a “student district for city council elections.” The creation of such a district would be...
Horns Up: Cornyn's not falling for it.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz railed against the alleged evils of the Affordable Care Act for over 21 hours. Cruz’s tactic does nothing...
One of the most important and overlooked episodes in the history of the American West was the battle over the water of Owens Valley in California around the turn of the 20th century.
The California...
Horns Down: LGBTQ Texans struggle to find representation on Republican ballot
In an article published in the Austin-American Statesman on Saturday, The Associated Press pointed out that none of the...
The Capital Metro Board of Directors met Monday to discuss a number of issues, including the possible shutting down of two low-ridership shuttle routes that cater mainly to graduate students. According...
In a speech before Parliament in 1868, the English political philosopher John Stuart Mill — an ardent supporter of capital punishment — pointed out the sole argument against it that gave him...
Horns Up: Emmy win gives reason for "Breaking Bad" binge
As busy college students, we’re always looking for an excuse to spend more time with our Netflix accounts. It comes as...
Every week, the Daily Texan editorial board will sit down with a campus or community figure to ask them about issues related to students. These conversations, edited and condensed for clarity, will run...
Horns Down: System official pay
The chancellor of the UT System and several other System officials have been given pay raises, in some cases of six figures. Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s...
On Monday the University released its preliminary Fall 2013 Enrollment Analysis. The report, which examines the most recent enrollment and retention numbers, shows mixed results: While four-year graduation...
During last Saturday's game against Ole Miss, many Longhorn fans left the stadium early, either out of shame or boredom. But was that the right move? Two of our opinion columnists have weighed in in...
Horns Up: High ratings for energy conservation
Austin has yet another reason to pat itself on the back. In a report released Tuesday by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Austin was...
Some politicians just don’t know when to let things die. That much was made clear Tuesday at a meeting of the State Board of Education. The meeting was called to discuss seven high school biology...
Horns Down: Texas Inhospitality
Carson Otter, a visiting student from Ole Miss is in intensive care after being assaulted in Austin in the very early hours of Saturday morning before the football...
As The Daily Texan reported Friday, a former UT System chancellor, R.D. Burck, serves on the Executive Committee of the University of Texas Chancellor’s Council, an advising board to the current...
Horns Up: LGBTQ Group stands up to guard
The clock is ticking: LGBTQ rights group Lambda Legal is putting pressure on the Texas National Guard to reverse its policy against granting federal benefits...
Every week, the Daily Texan Editorial team will sit down with a campus or community figure to ask them about issues related to students. These conversations, edited and condensed for clarity, will run...
Current freshmen not withstanding, UT students couldn’t have missed the new high-rise apartment complexes being built in West Campus last year. However, beneath the cranes and exposed beams of 2400...
Horns Down: Tesla cars can't be sold in Texas
Texas politicians claim loudly and often to be the champions of the competitive free market, but there are exceptions to every rule. The state government...
Editor’s Note: This editorial, in response to the horrific events of 9/11, ran in the Texan on Sept. 12, 2001. Although controversial for urging careful reflection, rather than war, at a time of...
