Really, Houston Chronicle? No endorsements today? Let's review the bidding so far, and see which offices have and have not had a recommendation from the Chron:

1. President and Vice President - Done

2. US Senate - No endorsement yet.

3. US House - Endorsement in CD22, none yet in CDs 07, 10, 18, or 29 (CDs 02 and 09 are uncontested).

4. Railroad Commissioner - No endorsement yet.

5. State Supreme Court - Done.

6. Court of Criminal Appeals - Done.

7. 1st and 14th District Courts of Appeals - No endorsement yet for any of the six benches.

8. State Senate - Done for SD11, not yet for SDs 06 or 17 (SD04 is uncontested).

9. State Board of Education, District 7 - Done.

10. State House - Done for HDs 126, 127, 129, 134, 135, 138, 141, 143, 144, 145, 148, 149, 150. Not done for HD133. The rest are uncontested, at least by a major party.

11. County Judge - No endorsement yet.

12. District Attorney - Done.

13. Sheriff - No endorsement yet.

14. Tax Assessor - No endorsement yet.

15. County Attorney - Done.

16. District Clerk - No endorsement yet.

17. Harris County Department of Education trustees - No endorsement yet for either position.

18. Harris County District, Criminal, Family, and Probate Courts - No endorsement yet for any of these 27 benches.

19. Harris County Commissioner - No endorsement yet for Precinct 3 (Precinct 1 is Dem versus Lib).

20. Justice of the Peace - No endorsement yet for any of Precincts 1, 5, or 8 in Place 1 (other JP precincts are uncontested).

21. Constable - No endorsement yet for any of Precincts 1, 2, 3, or 5 (other Constable precincts are uncontested).

So that's 23 offices done, and 36 to go, using my generous-to-them count of only considering Dem-versus-GOP races. If we just consider categories of races, there are 14 of them, and we are exactly two weeks out from Election Day. I think you can do the math there. And yet today they rest. You'd think this year of all years, they'd want to work a little harder to get these all or at least mostly done in a timely fashion, but as with the primaries, that doesn't appear to be the case.

On a side note, still no Presidential endorsement from the Star-Telegram or El Paso Times. Burka and Evan Smith are keeping track of Texas newspaper endorsements, which included a few small papers for McCain yesterday. And finally, TexBlog PAC candidate Diana Maldonado picked up another endorsement for HD52.