Mark Konkol: "If you, like me, worry that using the same public checkbook to prevent a conflict of interest seems like a conflict of interest — when we're most certainly talking about a tangent of the FBI's epic public corruption investigation in Illinois — school officials say there's no need to fret."
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.