Guest Commentary: State can thank federal relief for credit-rating upgrade – Champaign News-Gazette*

Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner, of Wirepoints: "Ignore the claims by Illinois lawmakers of their heroic acts of 'balanced budgets,' 'fiscal discipline' and the like. Even if those claims were true, and they are not, they couldn’t by themselves create such a swing in Illinois’ short-term fortunes."