Utopia? What utopia?

clipped from media.www.dailyvanguard.com Progress Board pegs Oregon as 'average' in report card Homelessness and affordable housing among state's worst-performing areas SALEM, Ore. - There were no straight As to be found on Oregon's biennial report card, issued Monday by the state Progress Board, but on the bright side, there were no red-letter Fs either. Instead, the checkup on how Oregon is doing on a series of 91 different economic, social, cultural and environmental benchmarks shows mainly middling grades, and not much progress made since previous results were tallied in 2005. Even more tellingly, Oregon is behind Washington in nearly every measurement in the economic category, from trade outside the state's borders to the cost of doing business, though Oregon does surpass Washington in numbers of new employers.