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 Doomsday Clock being set to 89 seconds away from midnight, closer than it has ever been
• HISD students making some academic progress from 2022, but still trailing scores their predecessors got before the pandemic
• A huge mammoth skull being unearthed in Central Texas

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Mary Flood, legal consultant with Androvett Legal Media & Marketing
• David Branham, professor of political science at the University of Houston-Downtown