Grading the States

Utah and Virginia get the highest marks in a study of how state governments manage money, information, people, roads, and buildings. The study comes from the Government Performance Project -- an initiative of the University of Richmond sponsored by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. They have an interactive map where you can click on your state to see what it's doing right -- and wrong. In this era of grade inflation, no state got less than a C-. (Stateline.org)