FEMA head says he didn’t know there was a hurricane season: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week

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 head of FEMA saying (but possibly joking?) that he didn’t know there was a hurricane season here
• The National Weather Service receiving permission to hire 125 meteorologists and specialists after losing more than 560 employees earlier this year due to Trump administration cuts and retirements
• The Texas Workforce Commission mistakenly suggesting Chevron is firing more employees than it actually has at its facility in Midland

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

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