Jim Dey: "The response/counter response represents the latest round in the tangled litigation that grew out of a $1.8 million grant the Illinois Department of Health and Human Services awarded to an enterprise overseen by (Champaign's Sally) Carter. The grant was intended to fund social-service programs for young people in need. But the state claimed it never heard from Carter after she received the money."
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.