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:

• The USDA halting a new rule requiring poultry companies to keep levels of salmonella bacteria under a certain threshold
• A company using what’s essentially an AI-powered mood ring to build emotional connections and trust in relationships

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Marco Roberts, chairman of the Texas Conservative Liberty Forum
• Mary Flood, legal consultant with Androvett Legal Media & Marketing
• Vivian Ho, health economist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine