"Moody's is giving a credit score to East Moline saying, hey, it's two notches away from junk. It's a really bad rating," said Ted Dabrowski, president of Wirepoints. "It's a very bad signal for a very bad idea." Dabrowski argues that municipalities should never take out bonds, against taxpayer money, to gamble in the stock market.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.