Reporting HighlightsPrivate Schools, Public Money: Friendly state legislatures are steering money to private schools, catalyzing huge growth in recent years with far-reaching consequences. Minimal Oversight: States examined by ProPublica have little interest in overseeing the schools: not who run...

Award winning live music in La GrangeWesley’s Place Live Music Venue offers an acoustic evening starring Lone Canary and Dan Maguire at 7 p.m. July 10 in the chapel at First United Methodist Church of La Grange, 100 W. Cossitt Ave.Maguire, a singer-songwriter, hails from a musical family in Tul...