Houston Chronicle endorses Biden President Joe Biden is more than his accomplishments in office, a knowledgable acquaintance advised. Rather than spit out a bullet list of them in its Monday endorsement, The Houston Chronicle connected them to wisdom, experience, and strength of character. Newspaper endorsements mean less today than they once did, if they ever meant that much. But if any major newspapers issued them earlier than The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board’s endorsement of President Joe Biden (ahead of the March 5 primary), I can’t recall. A president who “believes in the power of government to make life better for the American people, is a key reason we heartily endorse the reelection of President Joe Biden.” Another is “to fend off the chaos, corruption and danger to the nation” represented by a second Donald Trump term. The paper provides a list of what Biden has accomplished in his first term with a narrow legislative margins in Congress. For starters: “The economy has recovered from the perils of the pandemic and is now healthier than that of any other advancednation. With unemployment approaching a 50-year low, companies large and small need workers.” But there’s more: Inflation is trending downward, somehow, despite all dire prophecies of economists, without the bitter medicine of arecession or a period of high unemployment. Food prices are still high, and hard-working Americans are still wincing atgrocery store receipts, but gas prices have fallen, as the U.S. produces more oil than any country in history, including Saudi Arabia.…