THE 9/11 COMMISSION WILL NEVER GO AWAY, APPARENTLY: Now they’ve issued a report card.

On the other hand, there’s clearly room for improvement:

Connecticut homeland security officials were left in the dark for more than two hours Friday after a series of bomb threats forced the evacuation and shutdown of the state’s 45 courthouses, authorities acknowledged Monday.

Neither police nor Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s office _ which received one of the bomb threats at 10 a.m. _ had informed the security agency by noon, leaving top officials to learn about the first-of-its-kind evacuation from reporters.

Yes, this is a state issue — but supposedly we created a new cabinet department to help bring states up to speed.