A tortoise escape artist: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week

12/01/2024 13 min
A tortoise escape artist: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week

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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 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 artistOur 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

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