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:

• Like the rest of us, Houston's Office of Emergency Management being without a power outage map during Hurricane Beryl
• Exploding soda cans on some Southwest Airlines flights
• The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile getting in a bit of a pickle

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Jessica Brown, co-director of Station Theater
• Charles Kuffner, who writes the political blog Off the Kuff

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:

• Elon Musk moving more of his companies to Texas
• Astros mascot Orbit getting booed at the All-Star Game in Arlington
• A Texan named "Literally Anybody Else" running for president

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Vivian Ho, health economist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine
• Natalie Arceneaux, president of Arceneaux International Consulting

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:

• Uncertainty about bike sharing in Houston after Houston BCycle shut down
• Transit trains in Houston are getting blander, while ones in Boston are getting googly eyes

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• David Branham, professor of political science at the University of Houston-Downtown
• Houston Chronicle columnist Joy Sewing