{"id":145390,"date":"2026-01-31T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145390\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:53:23","slug":"the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-the-week-houston-public-media-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145390\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-246779 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GBU-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly logo in blue and white\" width=\"585\" height=\"358\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s news, we turn to a rotating panel of &#8220;non-experts&#8221; to parse <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/topics\/good-bad-ugly\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly<\/a> of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>This week, our panel weighs in on these stories:<\/p>\n<p>Some voters in the 18th Congressional District, who have waited nearly a year to elect a new member of Congress, having to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/politics\/elections\/2026\/01\/29\/542005\/edwards-menefee-early-voting-provisional-ballot-18th-congressional-district\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wait just a little longer<\/a> Wednesday and Thursday<br \/>\nThe Texas State Board of Education <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/01\/28\/texas-board-education-reading-list-vote\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">delaying a vote<\/a> on a controversial and very long reading list for students<br \/>\nBruce Springsteen <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/28\/nx-s1-5691707\/bruce-springsteen-minneapolis-protest-song-alex-pretti-renee-good\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">releasing a protest song<\/a> about ICE and the border patrol<\/p>\n<p>Our panel of non-experts this week includes:<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10820,16037,56137,3104,24816,60925,16036,56,58,4978,57,1829,66,60926,223,4988,28751,7895],"class_list":["post-145390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-18th-congressional-district","tag-bad-and-ugly","tag-book-bans","tag-books","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-frank-billingsley","tag-good","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-ice","tag-local","tag-mustafa-tameez","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-raul-ramos","tag-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}