"Virginia shot up in a 50-state ranking of state government integrity released Monday, riding ethics reforms approved over the last two years from a spot at 47 all the way up to No. 16. Don't celebrate too hard, though. Virginia, like 36 other states, still got a "D." The study, a year-long collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity, concluded that state government nearly everywhere suffers from "pervasive secrecy, weak oversight and questionable ethics..."