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Stories by Joe Stange include:

• 2/16/1999: Newspaper Story - Partisan bickering Tuesday blocked a Senate Democratic leadership plan to advance the governor's nearly $200-million tax-cut package. The Senate's Fat Tuesday debate on how to trim the fat lasted well into the evening for the first time this year.
• 2/ 9/1999: Radio Story - The crowd of home-schooled students didn't need permission slips to skip class today. Their parents were right there with them, all on hand to protest one bill offered by a Kansas City lawmaker.
• 12/16/1998: Newspaper Story - Lt. Gov. Roger Wilson accepted a part-time position with a St. Louis consulting firm, and the Republicans say that "weakens his position" for reelection in 2000.
• 5/13/1998: Newspaper Story - Caseworkers in the trenches of welfare reform think psychology may be an obstacle for reform.
• 5/13/1998: Newspaper Story - The state government doesn't know where former welfare recipients are going, or how many are working.
• 5/13/1998: Newspaper Story - The General Assembly passed a $90 million tax cut which included provisions for families and the elderly.
• 5/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - Two of the governor's bills for children clear major hurdles in the legislature.
• 4/20/1998: Newspaper Story - A Salvation Army caseworker has watched food lines get longer even though the welfare rolls are getting smaller.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - Black legislators complain the House leadership does not appoint enough blacks to House management jobs.
• 3/30/1998: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers are trying to pass a tax on all wine sold in Missouri -- when it would only benfit Missouri winemakers.
• 3/23/1998: Newspaper Story - The only comprehensive welfare reform plan of the 1998 session has a tough road ahead of it.
• 2/23/1998: Newspaper Story - Sen. Walter Mueller wants to prohibit naming public buildings after people who are still in office.
• 2/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - Death-row inmates could trade their kidneys for their lives under a proposal sponsored in Missouri's legislature.
• 1/26/1998: Newspaper Story - Missouri's top Democrats avoided a defense of President Bill Clinton Monday, urging the public to wait until all the facts are in.
• 1/20/1998: Newspaper Story - House Republicans introduce their version of welfare reform -- to require recipients to work.
• 12/ 4/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Supreme Court hears oral arguments in two Hancock revenue lid cases that are holding up almost $700 in tax refunds.
• 12/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - The seven Supreme Court judges will determine the fate of enough money to hire 7,000 Supreme Court judges.
• 11/18/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri and 37 other states want something from Toys 'R' Us this holiday season -- it ain't Tickle Me Elmo.
• 11/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Gambling companies split over whether to ask lawmakers to allow Missourians to lose more money.
• 11/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - High-school kids wade thru mud to help track the water quality of Missouri streams.
• 11/ 6/1997: Hundreds of Missourians are volunteering to keep watch over Missouri Streams
• 10/14/1997: Newspaper Story - State officials debate how much the state owes taxpayers in refunds.
• 10/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - Governor, attorney general, and several other law enforcement heavies attend methamphetamine summit in capital.
• 10/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Feature on dedicated anti-death penalty protesters.
• 10/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Feature on inmates living in tents at Missouri prisons.
• 9/19/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Insurance Department offers help to Holocaust survivors.
• 9/11/1997: Newspaper Story - Anti-abortion forces call for a delay on abortion legislation while the governor calls for action in the special session.
• 9/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri would pay for James Earl Ray's liver transplant if he's released from Tennessee prison.
• 8/28/1997: Newspaper Story - The governor rejects the idea of an early release for inmates returned from Texas.