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IT’S EASY TO get so frustrated by all the things the Legislature is not accomplishing — or even trying to accomplish — that we fail to notice when it finally does something significant. That happened last month, when good-government advocates prevailed in a quarter-century effort to create an independent state inspector general with significant authority to not only root out the cliched “waste, fraud and abuse” but force state agencies to do things in a smarter way.