A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to a rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of it all.

This week, our panel weighs in on these stories:

• Astros players criticizing fans who booed their playoff performance
• A new junior hockey team in Houston being forced to delay their debut
• An NFL rule requiring football players to arrive the night before kickoff, even when their game is a short bus ride away

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Marco Roberts, chairman of the Texas Conservative Liberty Forum
• Lisa Falkenberg, senior columnist with the Houston Chronicle
• Vivian Ho, health economist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine

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A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to a rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of it all.

This week, our panel weighs in on these stories:

• Dueling perspectives on the state takeover of HISD
• People using Waffle House to track where Hurricane Isaias is doing damage

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Marcus Davis, owner of the Breakfast Klub restaurant
• Tessa Barrera, co-host of Hello Houston
• Charles Kuffner, who writes the political blog Off the Kuff

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A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to a rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of it all.

This week, our panel weighs in on these stories:

• Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s preferred banned book list for schools includes a Holocaust memoir that’s soon-to-be required reading for Texas 8th graders
• A former Katy police officer facing charges he misused Flock cameras to stalk his ex-wife
• A Houston-area restaurant dropping tap-to-pay technology to fight back against fraudsters

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Raúl Ramos, associate professor of history at the University of Houston
• Marco Roberts, chairman of the Texas Conservative Liberty Forum
• Lisa Falkenberg, senior columnist with the Houston Chronicle

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