Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, a Democrat who met with the state’s congressional delegation in Washington this week, told Route Fifty on Thursday that despite having a $1.7 billion surplus, the state could use the money on other things besides paying tens of millions in interest.
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.