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Stories by ANNA BRUTZMAN include:

• 5/ 4/1999: Newspaper Story - A legislative committee chairman's unfriendly reception of his health-care bil all but destroyed any chance o its getting onto the Senate floor for debate. But Harlan responded late Tuesday by adding his bill as an amendment onto a realted mental-health bill.
• 4/27/1999: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Senate approved a bill Tuesday that could add about a cent to the price of every cigarette sold by off-brand cigarette companies.
• 4/26/1999: Newspaper Story - Representatives of anti-methamphetamine task forces from around the state gathered in Jefferson City's Polic Department Monday to celebrate the latest funding grant in the fight against what Gov. Mel Carnahan calls a "chemical killer."
• 4/19/1999: Newspaper Story - An amendment to a House helath-care appropriations bill dangled for more than four hours in the Senate before passing Monday night as legislators debated the fine points of language that will narrow a woman's access to abortion services in Missouri.
• 4/14/1999: Newspaper Story - Appeals against the state's tobacco settlement have caused another snag in the state's efforts to get its $6.7 billion pay out from the tobacco industry.
• 4/12/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri's six statewide officeholders may soon go another mile down the information superhighway if the House approves legislation that passed the House Elections Committee on Monday.
• 4/ 7/1999: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers say Proposition B's defeat will not improve changes for gun-control legislation.
• 4/ 7/1999: Newspaper Story - Although gay marriage is not legal in the state of Missouri, many gay couples exchange vows anyway. This is the story of two men and their commitment to each other.
• 4/ 4/1999: Newspaper Story - At a special meeting of the Senate Judicial Committee, representatives of the attorney general's office cleared up some issues surrounding the $6.7 billion tobacco settlement's attorneys fees, its final settlement date and the purpose of off-brand tobacco legislation.
• 3/30/1999: Newspaper Story - Missourians will decide on the April 6 ballot whether to compel cell-phone users to pay extra for 911 emergency services.
• 2/24/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate passes a ban on same-sex marriages.
• 2/17/1999: Newspaper Story - Off-brand tobacco companies would haveto put up money to state government to sell cigarettes in Missouri under legislation approved Tuesday by the Senate General Laws Committee.
• 2/16/1999: Newspaper Story - A Senate committee has voted to force off-brand tobacco companies to pay into a special escrow account to sell their products in Missouri.
• 2/ 4/1999: Newspaper Story - While John and Joan can happily marry in Missouri, state lawmakers were urged Wednesday not to extend the same opportunities to the state's John and Johns -- or Joan and Joans.
• 1/26/1999: Newspaper Story - With legislation proposed Tuesday, Sen. Wayne Goode, D-St. Louis County, said that tow-truck companies have no right ot make a profit out of selling abandoned vehicles.
• 1/19/1999: Newspaper Story - Democratic Senate leaders said they wanted a tax cut that would benefit all tax payers. Republicans said the cuts should be deeper and should also include cuts for businesses.