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:

• Gov. Abbott planning to spend big to oust fellow Republicans who voted against his school voucher plans
• Houston getting high marks for hosting this week’s College Football Playoff championship game
• A Houston-area tortoise gaining notoriety for being an escape artist

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Charles Kuffner, who writes the political blog Off the Kuff
• Raúl Ramos, associate professor of History at the University of Houston
• Vivian Ho, health economist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine