Jim Dey: "WBEZ public radio in Chicago recently found 'nearly $2 million in state retirement checks' are going out to a 'mix of federal charged, convicted and self-admitted felons who once served' in the General Assembly. The pension puzzle demonstrates once again the political establishment’s conflicted relationship between honest government and personal financial gain."
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.