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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<\/a> of it all.<\/p>\n This week, our panel weighs in on these stories:<\/p>\n Our panel of non-experts this week includes:<\/p>\n Charles Kuffner, who writes the political blog Off the Kuff<\/a> Watch<\/p>\n \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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16037,24479,16036,56,58,4978,57,66,16041,223,7895],"class_list":["post-39826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bad-and-ugly","tag-david-branham","tag-good","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-mary-flood","tag-news","tag-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39826","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=39826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDavid Branham<\/a>, professor of political science at the University of Houston-Downtown
\nMary Flood<\/a>, legal consultant with Androvett Legal Media & Marketing<\/p>\n