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

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:

• A social media comment making the strange working relationship between Mayor John Whitmire and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo...even stranger
• The Texas A&M baseball coach heatedly swearing he planned to never take another job again...only to go to UT the next day
• Champion eater Joey Chestnut finding a different hot dog eating contest (in Texas) for the Fourth of July, after being banned from the Nathan's contest

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Marcus Davis, owner of the Breakfast Klub restaurant
• Jessica Brown, co-director of Station Theater

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:

• METRO not pursuing federal funding for a shelved bus-rapid transit project used in part to sell voters on a $3.5 billion bond five years ago
• The U.S. Surgeon General calling for warning labels on social media platforms, like the ones on cigarette packages
• A rare strawberry moon appearing over Texas for the first time since 1985

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Lisa Falkenberg, editor of opinion for the Houston Chronicle
• Charles Kuffner, who writes the political blog Off the Kuff