I'm not exactly sure why the Chron endorsements for two noncompetitive State Senate races takes up as much space as their gubernatorial endorsement and way more than their recommendations for State House races that will actually be closely contested. Maybe they just found the subject matter sufficiently interesting and had nothing better to write about today, I don't know. I'll say this - thanks to reading that editorial, I now know that Sen. John Whitmire has an opponent in his race. I was going to call him unopposed, but figured I should check first. So at least I learned something.

On a side note, I totally agree with Karl-Thomas regarding some of the endorsements in the Ag Commissioner race. It's clear that whoever wrote these two pieces has not been following that campaign at all. For shame.