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• 12/ 7/2000: Radio Story - St. Louis Senator, Paula Carter, proposes a law that would allow early voting at the polls.
• 12/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - Democratic Lt. Gov. Joe Maxwell has taken on the role of peacekeeper between Republicans and Democrats as the leaders of both parties continue to negotiate an agreement to share control of the virtually tied state Senate.
• 12/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - In a press conference today governor-elect announced key appointments to his administration, including chief of staff and cheif counsel.
• 12/ 4/2000: Radio Story - O.L. Shelton and Quincy Troupe disagree over the 4th Senatorial District.
• 12/ 4/2000: Radio Story - The NAACP tried to rally at the statehouse in protest of the Presidential election; however, few people braved the cold, November day.
• 12/ 4/2000: Newspaper Story - While the battle for the White House may be galvanizing the country, it failed to draw much of a crowd for a Missouri NAACP rally on the steps of the statehouse Monday.
• 12/ 4/2000: Radio Story - The Secretary of State certified election results for all races.
• 12/ 4/2000: Radio Story - Governor Roger Wilson signed all documents paving the way for Jean Carnahan to fill Mel Carnahan's seat in the U.S. Senate
• 11/30/2000: Radio Story - One Republican Senator says that a power sharing agreement is in the works, but that it may take several weeks for an outcome.
• 11/30/2000: Newspaper Story - State Senate Republican leaders have proposed a full Senate meeting to discuss an agreement to share control of the Senate with the Democrats during the next legislative session.
• 11/30/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate is looking into the possibility of a power sharing agreement for the next legislative session, because of a virtually tied chamber.
• 11/30/2000: Newspaper Story - A commission charged with investigating legislative pay raises has recommended a pay raise for Missouri's elected officials.
• 11/30/2000: Radio Story - Almost a month after the election canidate signs for public office are still up across Missouri.
• 11/30/2000: Radio Story - Secretary of State elect Matt Blunt says his first action after taking office in January will be to set up an advisory board to help with election law and technology.
• 11/29/2000: Newspaper Story - Bob Holden awaits official election certification as he prepares for the transition from the treasurer's office to the governor's.
• 11/29/2000: Radio Story - Missouri's elected Democrats say Vice President Al Gore should challenge the election results, but look for a outcome soon.
• 11/29/2000: Radio Story - Statehouse Democrats in Missouri say Gore is right on the mark in continuing his quest for the Capitol.
• 11/28/2000: Radio Story - With all of the lawsuits and election challenges, Missouri lawmakers are opening their eyes to the possibility of changing legislation.
• 11/16/2000: Radio Story - Bob Holden, Missouri's Governor-elect, discussed the Hancock case, a job website, and appointments to his administration.
• 11/15/2000: Radio Story - In a ceremony held Wednesday morning, former state senator Joe Maxwell was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor.
• 11/15/2000: Newspaper Story - Top Missouri Republicans are investigating the legality of Joe Maxwell's early appointment to lieutenant governor.
• 11/14/2000: Newspaper Story - Republicans learned today their control of the state Senate next year may last a mere three weeks.
• 11/14/2000: Radio Story - With the resignation of three state senators, republicans will hold 16-15 state senate majority.
• 11/14/2000: Newspaper Story - Less than a week after female members assumed all leadership positions, three members of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus have announced or confirmed that they will resign.
• 11/13/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri state senators Joe Maxwell, Sam Graves and William Clay will all tender their resignations to Gov. Roger Wilson setting the stage for a special election January 23.
• 11/13/2000: Radio Story - The Senate Democratic caucus met on Monday and chose the same leaders as a year earlier-- minus newly-elected Lt. Governor Joe Maxwell.
• 11/13/2000: Newspaper Story - If Al Gore and George W. Bush had a race in Missouri like their race in Florida, the nation could be waiting even longer for a winner.
• 11/13/2000: Radio Story - Senator Joe Maxwell and the Democratic Caucus met to discuss the future of the Senate and to elect new leaders.
• 11/10/2000: Radio Story - Republican senators say they want to gain control of a tied Senate chamber. The Republican caucus elected one of its most outspoken and conservative members as its candidate for President Pro Temp, Cape Giradeau Senator Peter Kinder.
• 11/ 9/2000: Radio Story - Republican senators say they want to gain control of a tied Senate chamber. The Republican caucus elected one of its most outspoken and conservative members as its candidate for President Pro Temp, Cape Giradeau Senator Peter Kinder.
• 11/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - Governor-elect Bob Holden did not rule out giving his vanquished opponent a job in his administration.
• 11/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - In her first public appearance since Tuesday's historic election, Jean Carnahan said she would consider a future run for the U.S. Senate if her first two years there are successful.
• 11/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - A rural southwest Missourian, relatively unknown to Columbia, has beaten Columbia's senior House member for one of the most powerful positions in state government.
• 11/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - With the possibility of controlling Missouri's Senate for the first few weeks, Senate Republicans on Thursday selected some of their most conservative members to their top leadership team.
• 11/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - Democrat Bob Holden won the keys to the governor's mansion early Wednesday morning in one of the closest races in the country.
• 11/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri GOP official Ann Wagner called the election one of the most scandlous ever in the state of Missouri and called for an investigation into the results.
• 11/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - Three Democrats are now vying for the Speaker of the House seat and with one day left in the race, the winner is far from clear-cut.
• 11/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - Missourians handed John Ashcroft a dubious historic honor Tuesday, making him the first senator ever defeated by a dead man.
• 11/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - Following Tuesday's elections, the Republicans will hold a partisan majority in the state Senate -- at least for a few weeks.
• 11/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - Election Tuesday ended with the Missouri Senate split evenly between Democratic and Republican members and Missourians rejecting two highly contested propositions.
• 11/ 8/2000: Radio Story - Republicans are calling it a "scandal," but Democrats say it's fair game: voters in St. Louis may have legally been given an extra 45 mintues to mark their ballots, but questions remain about what really happened at polling places election night.
• 11/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Although the defeated Republican candidates have stated they won't pursue legal actions, the chairman of the party is calling for a special investigation into possible illegal actions in the election.
• 11/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - Republicans believe they could take control of the state Senate on Nov. 7 for the first time in 53 years.
• 11/ 6/2000: The time is running short for the candidates and both parties are working a coordinated effort to get voters to the polls.
• 11/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case against Missouri Secretary of State Rebecca Cook today. The case concerns a 1996 ballot initiative that encouraged Congress members to support term limits.
• 11/ 6/2000: Radio Story - Gracia Backer resigned from her seat in the state house to take on her new job as deputy chief of staff.
• 11/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - Statewide races Missourians will vote in on Tuesday include tight, historical contests.
• 11/ 2/2000: Radio Story - Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon files a lawsuit against vote-auction.com
• 11/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - Profile on the leading candidates for the U.S. Senate race.
• 11/ 2/2000: Radio Story - Jean Carnahan is featured in the minute-long ad telling Missourians to keep Mel Carnahans dreams alive.
• 11/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - Jean Carnahan unveiled her first television commercial Thursday asking voters to cast their ballots for her late husband, Gov. Mel Carnahan, to keep his legacy alive.
• 11/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Profiles on the leading candidates for Missouri lieutenant governor.
• 11/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Profiles of Missouri's two leading candidates for governor.
• 11/ 1/2000: Radio Story - The Carnahan-Ashcroft race remains one of the most high profile Senate races in the country, but Jean Carnahan is taking a low profile stance as Election Day approaches.
• 10/31/2000: Newspaper Story - Profiles on the two major party candidates for Missouri's Secretary of State.
• 10/31/2000: Newspaper Story - In a little-known constitutional amendment before Missouri voters, the legislature would take back some of the power from a state commission that sets the salaries and expenses of elected officials.
• 10/31/2000: Newspaper Story - One day after Jean Carnahan's dramatic announcement, campaign aides for the Democratic campaign for the U.S. Senate say they still are unsure how to proceed in the last week of the campaign.
• 10/31/2000: Radio Story - While some Republicans charge that absentee ballots cast for Mel Carnahan in the past two weeks are blind votes, Democrats see it differently.
• 10/30/2000: Radio Story - The state's top Republican and a Republican Congressional candidate tout Ashcroft's experience as governor and senator.
• 10/30/2000: Newspaper Story - The GOP touted John Ashcroft as the more experienced candidate Monday after Jean Carnahan announced she would accept a U.S. Senate appointment.
• 10/30/2000: Radio Story - Republicans say the Constitution stands in the way of Mel Carnahan getting elected to the US Senate. Therefore, they say, Jean Carnahan cannot take the place of her husband if he is no longer qualified to be a candidate. The secretary of state and attorney general disagree strongly.
• 10/30/2000: Newspaper Story - Republican Sam Jones' goal is not simply to win the race for attorney general. It's to beat incumbent Jay Nixon.
• 10/30/2000: Newspaper Story - With the election only days away a battle is being waged by secretary of state candidates Steve Gaw and Matt Blunt. Each candidate is questioning the integrity of the other.
• 10/27/2000: Newspaper Story - Profiles on the candidates for Missouri state treasurer
• 10/27/2000: Newspaper Story - Jean Carnahan said she will announce whether she will accept a proffered U.S. Senate seat Monday.
• 10/26/2000: Newspaper Story - More than 560 self-described Missourians have offered to sell their November presidential vote to the highest bidder -- using a foreign-based WWW service that seeks to skirt laws making vote-selling illegal.
• 10/26/2000: Newspaper Story - A constitutional amendment on the November ballot would consolidate the state's savings accounts and make it harder to access.
• 10/26/2000: Radio Story - Missourians contribute to the Children's Trust Fund in memory of the late governor.
• 10/26/2000: Radio Story - An Austrian based web site accused of selling votes includes Missouri voters.
• 10/26/2000: Newspaper Story - In an ironic twist, the backers of tax-supported political campaign initiative Proposition B have been hit with a lawsuit charging campaign finance violations.
• 10/25/2000: Newspaper Story - Political experts say Gov. Roger Wilson's announcement that he would appoint Jean Carnahan to the U.S. Senate could send more Missouri women and independent voters to the polls, tipping the tight presidential, senatorial and statewide races to the Democrats.
• 10/25/2000: Newspaper Story - Profile of the campaign managers for Missouri's gubernatorial candidates
• 10/24/2000: Newspaper Story - Sen. John Ashcroft unpacked food at a Jefferson City food pantry for as long as the TV cameras rolled -- about 12 minutes.
• 10/24/2000: Newspaper Story - Republicans decried as illegal and unfair Gov. Roger Wilson's announcement that he would appoint Jean Carnahan to the U.S. Senate.
• 10/24/2000: Radio Story - Governor Roger Wilson plans to appoint Jean Carnahan to the U.S. Senate should Mel receive a majority of the votes in the upcoming election.
• 10/24/2000: Newspaper Story - Although Missouri's first lady has never held government office, Jean Carnahan is no stranger to political leadership.
• 10/23/2000: Radio Story - After a weekend of grieving and memorials, many state employees came back to work Monday. Some did not.
• 10/23/2000: Newspaper Story - Amid swelling support for Jean Carnahan to replace her husband in the race for U.S. Senate, Gov. Roger Wilson has called a news conference for Tuesday morning "to discuss matters involving" the Senate race.
• 10/23/2000: Radio Story - Top Democrats are calling on Jean Carnahan to continue her late husband's campaign for the U.S. Senate.
• 10/23/2000: Newspaper Story - This past week Democrats have vowed to, "not let the fire go out." And Gov. Wilson has been getting unexpected, but extremely qualified help this past week.
• 10/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Remembrance speeches at Carnahan's memorial service laced with political undertones.
• 10/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Highlights of Friday's memorial service for Gov. Mel Carnahan.
• 10/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Thousands of Missourians and nationally known politicians, including President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, attended Gov. Mel Carnahan's memorial service Friday.
• 10/20/2000: Radio Story - Ten thousand gather on Capitol lawn to mourn Gov. Mel Carnahan.
• 10/20/2000: Radio Story - Republicans and Democrats, national and local leaders all joined with over ten thousand Missourians to share their admiration for Mel Carnahan.
• 10/19/2000: Newspaper Story - Thousands of Missourians braved long lines and unusual heat to briefly walk by Gov. Mel Carnahan's flag-draped casket.
• 10/19/2000: Radio Story - Blacks were among those saying farwell to Missouri's fallen governor.
• 10/19/2000: Newspaper Story - A memorial service will be held Friday for Gov. Mel Carnahan at a capitol where he spent almost two decades of his adult life.
• 10/18/2000: Newspaper Story - In a solemn ceremony and surrounded by family, friends and officials, Columbia's Roger B. Wilson was sworn in early Wednesday as Missouri's 52nd governor.
• 10/18/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov. Roger Wilson is slowly moving into the governor's office.
• 10/18/2000: Newspaper Story - While the state mourns the death of Gov. Mel Carnahan, many in the state Capitol also grieve for Chris Sifford.
• 10/18/2000: Newspaper Story - Memorial services for longtime Carnahan aide, Chris Sifford, will be held this weekend in Puxico, Mo.
• 10/18/2000: Radio Story - Two days after Governor Mel Carnahan's death, Democrats have not made any decisions on a possible appointment to the Senate.
• 10/18/2000: Newspaper Story - While the state mourns the death of Gov. Mel Carnahan, politics takes a backseat.
• 10/18/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan's legacy secure through his education record.
• 10/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Lieutenant Gov. Roger Wilson will assume the title of governor -- a position he has not coveted.
• 10/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Just hours after a plane carrying Gov. Mel Carnahan, his son Roger, and senior campaign staffer Chris Sifford, mourners congregated outside the governor's mansion.
• 10/17/2000: Radio Story - Republican or Democrat, Missourians felt the loss of Governor Mel Carnahan across party lines.
• 10/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Lieutenant Governor Roger Wilson was appointed acting governor after a plane believed to be carrying Gov. Mel Carnahan crashed.
• 10/17/2000: Newspaper Story - The tragic plane crash that claimed the life of Missouri's governor and two others almost claimed the life of a journalist covering the governor's campaign.
• 10/17/2000: Newspaper Story - The terrain where Mel Carnahan's plane crashed is some of the roughest in Missouri.
• 10/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Campaigns across the state came to an abrupt halt today in honor of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan, his son Roger "Randy" Carnahan and former chief of staff Chris Sifford.
• 10/16/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan and Sen. John Ashcroft debated for the second time Sunday.
• 10/16/2000: Newspaper Story - Through his more aggressive style, Gov. Mel Carnahan controlled much of the content of the second debate in Missouri's Senate race.
• 10/16/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's major candidates for governor each reported still having more than $2 million to spend.
• 10/16/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's farmers have a stake in the outcome of Proposition A on the Nov. 7 ballot, a measure that would infringe on their property rights.
• 10/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's $6.7 billion tobacco settlement money isn't discussed much on the campaign trail, but when pressed many candidates for state offices have big ideas.
• 10/12/2000: Newspaper Story - The campaign to restrict billboards launches a series of news conferences attacking their opponents' TV ads.
• 10/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Ninety-year-old New Hampshire native Doris "Granny D" Haddock stopped by the capitol Wednesday to voice her support for Proposition B on the November ballot.
• 10/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Details of Proposition B on the November Ballot to provide tax funds to political candidates.
• 10/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Background on how various states have addressed government funding of campaigns that Missourians will see on the November ballot.
• 10/11/2000: Radio Story - While Carnahan and Ashcroft each take credit for improving crime, state officers say it's a campaign issue that's just not political.
• 10/11/2000: Newspaper Story - The Democratic candidate for Missouri governor links his opponent to Newt Gingrich in their second debate.
• 10/11/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri police and prosecutors praised Carnahan's record on meth but said some changes in the law were needed.
• 10/ 6/2000: Radio Story - Nancy Farmer says she thinks Republican Todd Graves has people videotaping her everywhere she goes.
• 10/ 5/2000: Radio Story - Democrat Nancy Farmer says she believes that her Republican rival Todd Graves has people stalking her.
• 10/ 5/2000: Newspaper Story - Democratic candidate for state treasurer Nancy Farmer posted a stalker alert on her webpage, claiming that her opponent has been videotaping her going to and from campaign events.
• 10/ 5/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri parents would have more investment options for their childrens' college education under plans being developed by Missouri's state treasurer as well as candidates for the job.
• 10/ 5/2000: Newspaper Story - The educational background of Missouri's gubernatorial candidates reflect the differences in their education policies.
• 10/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's billboard industry is fighting for its life in this year's election -- if Proposition A passes, construction of new billboards in Missouri will be banned.
• 10/ 2/2000: Radio Story - Third Party Senate Candidate Hugh Foley doesn't think there is enough coverage for all candidates.
• 10/ 2/2000: Radio Story - Jim Talent and Bob Holden participated in the first debate in the race for the governor's office.
• 10/ 2/2000: Radio Story - Civil War historic marker has a stylized Confederate flag symbol.
• 10/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - A Confederate flag has appeared on a new Civil War marker erected by the Missouri Natural Resources Department on state capitol grounds.
• 10/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - The state Republican party's spokesman resigned Monday more than a week after he compared State Auditor Claire McCaskill to "a cheap hooker."
• 9/28/2000: Radio Story - Planned Parenthood's efforts to get state funds for family planning came before Missouri's Supreme Court. But the case will also decide if the state can sue the state.
• 9/28/2000: Radio Story - Roy Temple, Head of the Missouri Democratic Party, says that Senator Ashcroft's silence about comments made by a Republican spokesman goes against his Missouri values platform.
• 9/28/2000: Newspaper Story - Sen. John Ashcroft for the third straight day has not commented on the now infamous "cheap hooker" comment.
• 9/27/2000: Newspaper Story - GOP candidate for governor Jim Talent said he would not seek Daryl Duwe's termination after Duwe compared State Auditor Claire McCaskill to "a cheap hooker."
• 9/27/2000: Radio Story - The GOP candidate for governor says he will not call for the resignation of his party's spokesman for comparing a state official to a "hooker."
• 9/26/2000: Newspaper Story - After the state's GOP spokesman compared State Auditor Claire McCaskill to a "cheap hooker," the Missouri Democratic Party's top official called on Republican leaders Tuesday to sack the flak.
• 9/26/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri GOP spokesman compares a statewide official to a "cheap hooker."
• 9/26/2000: Newspaper Story - Change versus continuity was the major theme in the first debate by the leading candidates for Missouri governor.
• 9/25/2000: Newspaper Story - The state contends that an appropriations law prohibitting state money from going to organizations that promote abortions means Planned Parenthood can no longer receive state family-planning funding.
• 9/25/2000: Radio Story - There are nearly 30 "alternative" party candidates running for statewide office in Missouri.
• 9/22/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan, visiting the state's center of higher education Thursday, unveiled an initiative designed to make affording college easier.
• 9/21/2000: Newspaper Story - Four third-party candidates are in the race for the state treasuer's office--a position that has placed several state politicians into the big leagues.
• 9/21/2000: Newspaper Story - The campaign designed to cut outside funding for political candidates is getting a bundle for its own campaign -- and much of it is coming from outside of Missouri.
• 9/21/2000: Radio Story - The controversy is over a John Ashcroft ad showing a State Troopers Association letter thanking the Senator for a 1999 anti-meth bill.
• 9/21/2000: Newspaper Story - The campaign managers for two people seeking to be Missouri's next state treasurer both describe themselves as idealists who are fiercely committed to their candidates.
• 9/20/2000: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Democratic party has called on Sen. John Ashcroft to return money Bob Jones University gave him after a speech at the campus last year.
• 9/19/2000: Radio Story - The state is spending $8 million of taxpayer money to improve aesthetics in the Capitol building.
• 9/18/2000: Newspaper Story - Third party secretary of state candidates struggle for publicity.
• 9/14/2000: Newspaper Story - A profile of Mitch Moore, the Libertarian candidate for attorney general.
• 9/14/2000: Newspaper Story - PACs are giving increasing amounts to both sides in major political races according to a study released by a campaign finance advoacy group.
• 9/14/2000: Newspaper Story - Profile of Kevin Edwards, the campaign manager for Republican attorney general candidate Sam Jones.
• 9/13/2000: Newspaper Story - Fond farwells rather than overrides dominated the attention of the Missouri legislature's veto session.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - Missouri Voters for Fair Elections campaigned for the plan in Jefferson City.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - Proposition B would give public money to candidates who say no to private contributions.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - Republican Floor Leader Steve Ehmann took his last stand on the Missouri Senate Floor. But, Ehlmann didn't leave quietly.
• 9/13/2000: Newspaper Story - Democratic chief Roy Temple filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Senate Ethics committee saying Ashcroft could benefit financially from a bill he is sponsoring.
• 9/12/2000: Newspaper Story - GOP gubernatorial candidate Jim Talent shifted his bid's focus from highways to education.
• 9/12/2000: Newspaper Story - St. Louis Cardinals great Stan Musial became the first sports star to be inducted in the Hall of Famous Missourians Monday.
• 9/11/2000: Radio Story - Bob Holden won the straw poll conducted at Lasalle Middle School by 13 percent. But, Republican Darrel Duwe does not put much credence in the results.
• 9/11/2000: Radio Story - A group of Republican representatives and law enforcement officers joined Cass County Prosecutor Chris Koster in attacking Governor Mel Carnahan's weak anti-meth laws.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - While candidates for governor debate the future of bond financing for road improvements, the first bond-financed repair project is up and running in Saline County.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate race is among the most watched in the nation because the two main candidates are established names with large war chests. Nonetheless, the two small party candidates say they can win.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - The debate over methamphetamine in Missouri's Senate race conitnued on the steps of the Capitol Monday.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - The Green Party's candidate for Missouri's attorney general will not be allowed to run because she is not a lawyer, a Cole County circuit court judge has ruled.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - A debate Thursday night was less contested than it was congenial, with all four candidates offering compliments and refraining from any personal attacks. The debate focused not so much on campaign issues but rather on the question of whether the office of lieutenant governor should be reformed -- and whether it should exist at all.
• 9/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's gubernatorial candidates continued to focus on the state's highway system at a forum Friday. All major-party candidates for statewide offices showed up at the forum with one notable exception -- Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, who is running for the U.S. Senate.
• 9/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Lack of tough DWI laws causes the state to lose $14 million in federal construction money.
• 9/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Republican Party wants the Federal Election Commission to investigate Carnahan's ties to a casino fund raiser.
• 9/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - Less than 15 people attended the first attorney general debate, with not even the incumbent, Democratic candidate Jay Nixon, attending the event.
• 9/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - The losing candidate for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor is keeping alive the Ethics Commission complaint against her winning opponent.
• 9/ 5/2000: Newspaper Story - The campaign managers for the two candidates for secretary of state both are in their 20s.
• 9/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Though mostly below the surface, religion has assumed a major role in Missouri's Senate race.
• 8/31/2000: Radio Story - A dozen Democratic office holders came to the defense of Gov. Mel Carnahan on his record against methampehtamine.
• 8/31/2000: Newspaper Story - Democratic lawmakers, police officers and prosecutors Thursday refuted a John Ashcroft ad depicting Gov. Mel Carnahan as soft on methamphetamine.
• 8/31/2000: Radio Story - Missouri Democrats spoke against a John Ashcroft campaign ad that accuses Mel Carnahan of a weak record in the fight against methamphetamine production. The collection of Democratic sheriffs, prosecutors and lawmakers say the ad is simply dishonest.
• 8/31/2000: Radio Story - Mary Ann McGivern, a Catholic nun, wants to run as the Green Party candidate for Attorney General.
• 8/30/2000: Radio Story - The State Farm Bureau's annual state fair straw poll showed the Republicans leading in each category.
• 8/30/2000: Newspaper Story - Republicans the presidential, senate, and gubernatorial races in an unscientific straw poll conducted at the Missouri state fair.
• 8/30/2000: Newspaper Story - The Green Party filed suit against the Secretary of State's office after the office refused to allow the Green candidate for Attorney General on the ballot because she is not a lawyer.
• 8/30/2000: Newspaper Story - Vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney spoke at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Tuesday.
• 8/29/2000: Newspaper Story - Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Talent submitted his highway bond plan to an independent consultant to rerun the numbers after weeks of criticism from his Democratic opponent.
• 8/28/2000: Radio Story - Carnahan, Ashcroft, Gore and Bush. They've all brought religion into their campaigns one way or another.
• 8/28/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan, a Baptist Deacon, said Monday he has read "very little" Playboy.
• 8/28/2000: Newspaper Story - Phil Horras is campaigning for lieutenant governor by wheelchairing 200 miles along the Katy trail. Horras believes that the position of lieutenant governor is redundant, and ought to be abolished.
• 8/24/2000: Newspaper Story - Labor Day is the traditional presidential campaign kickoff; and as the first weekend in September looms, Al Gore still has not named a state campaign director in Missouri.
• 8/24/2000: Newspaper Story - An attorney for the Missouri Broadcaster's Association said Larry Rice's gubernatorial opponents could claim free air time on Rice's broadcast outlets.
• 8/23/2000: Newspaper Story - Ralph Nader's Green Party was certified for Missouri's November ballot.
• 8/21/2000: Newspaper Story - State Democratic leaders reject the idea of some early Senate Democratic members to preserve Democratic control of the Senate.
• 5/13/2000: Radio Story - The 2000 legislative session ended with 13 bills passed, a couple of notables were sent to the governor's desk while others were killed.
• 5/13/2000: Newspaper Story - The Missouri legislature closed its most unproductive session in anyone's memory Friday with each party blaming the other for the malaise.
• 5/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Staying in tune with the session's theme, the Missouri General Assembly killed more major bills Friday than it approved.
• 5/11/2000: Newspaper Story - The House finally passed the BAC bill after debating and amending it for hours. The Senate kept up the ways of stagnation by tabling a proposal to give doctors and patients the right to sue an HMO.
• 5/10/2000: Newspaper Story - The Senate's top Democratic leader drops legislation to allocate tobacco settlement funds after the Senate tacks on a ban on giving the money to abortion providers or referrers.
• 5/10/2000: Radio Story - Anti-abortion forces have rejected the governor's effort for a compromise on the tobacco settlement funds.
• 5/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - In a day that actually brought action to the legislature, the Assembly sent the governor bills creating a crime of domestic violence and spending billions on highways.
• 5/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - House approval of an open meetings bill highlights legislative action on the first day of its last week for 2000.
• 5/ 8/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri House debated and voted on the state Open Meetings Law Monday. They made several additions to the bill from the Senate
• 5/ 4/2000: Radio Story - Petitions are filed to put public funding of political campaigns on Missouri's ballot.
• 5/ 3/2000: Radio Story - National money is being used to promote the state's current 8 year term limits.
• 5/ 2/2000: Radio Story - The senior Democrat in Missouri's Senate calls the House speaker a "wimp."
• 5/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - The Senate's longest-serving member called House Speaker Steve Gaw a "wimp" Tuesday, after it became clear the House is unlikely to consider scrapping current term limits.
• 5/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - The state's General Assembly is on track to using the proposed tougher Sunshine legislation to close some records pertaining to public hospitals.
• 5/ 1/2000: Radio Story - Partisan debate stalls Senate action on legislation to allocate tobacco settlement funds.
• 4/25/2000: Newspaper Story - The Senate, led by its longest serving member, decided Tuesday to scrap a voter-approved eight-year limit on legislative terms. The vote was 21-12.
• 4/25/2000: Radio Story - St. Louis County Senator John Schneider says he proposed the bill because eight years is not enough time to gain adequate experience.
• 4/25/2000: Newspaper Story - The KTVI-TV cameraman shoved during an encounter with Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan and his bodyguard will file a lawsuit Wednesday or Thursday, his lawyer said.
• 4/25/2000: Newspaper Story - The Ethics Committee in the House rejected to hear Mike Goodwin's request for investigating Rep. Mays' campaign contributions. Mays is chairman of the Utilities Committee, and received iver 10,000 in donations from utility companies.
• 4/20/2000: Newspaper Story - MDN looks at the role of the players in last week's physical encounter between Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan and journalists.
• 4/20/2000: Newspaper Story - In a 86-68 vote the House rejected a bill intended to eliminate wage discrimination in the work place. It would have made it illegal for employers to create jobs with different titles, involving the same work but pay unequally.
• 4/20/2000: Radio Story - Republicans and Democrats voted against the bill, that would have required equal pay for equal work.
• 4/19/2000: Radio Story - Budget debate in the Senate was interrupted by heated debate about paying for the proposed ballpark in St. Louis.
• 4/19/2000: Radio Story - Auditor Claire McCaskill says Norm Stewart's contract could allow him to walk away and be paid for doing nothing.
• 4/19/2000: Newspaper Story - Norm Stewart's golden parachute caught fire from Missouri's state auditor on Wednesday.
• 4/18/2000: Radio Story - Irate Mexico Senator Joe Maxwell says he proposed the cut to force the agency to disclose provider bids for consolidated health care.
• 4/18/2000: Radio Story - Darryl Duwe says he has yet to receive a response for his request of Governor Mel Carnahan's travel records. The records are open under Missouri law.
• 4/18/2000: Newspaper Story - A bodyguard for Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan manhandled a photojournalist for KTVI-TV last week. The videotape and governor each give a different take.
• 4/17/2000: Newspaper Story - A proposal that makes the curremt 8 year term limit 4 years longers was approved Tuesday in the Missouri Senate by voice vote.
• 4/17/2000: Radio Story - The governor doesn't apologize for a member of his security staff shoving a television camara man from a St Louis station.
• 4/13/2000: Radio Story - A straight party-line vote passed the Equal Rights Amendment out of a Senate committee.
• 4/12/2000: Radio Story - The House debated whether or not the tobacco trust fund issue should be on the November Ballot.
• 4/12/2000: Newspaper Story - The plan to toughen the state's Sunshine Law was made a bit tougher by a House committee Wednesday -- which also added a major loophole for government-owned hospitals.
• 4/12/2000: Radio Story - On Wednesday, a House committee heard testimoy for and against a plan that would strip St. Louis city of control of Lambert airport.
• 4/11/2000: Newspaper Story - Rep. Quincy Troupe, D-St. Louis City, met with Sen. Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles and agreed to have a cooling off period to decide how to best proceed on Troupe's allegations of racism in St. Charles.
• 4/11/2000: Radio Story - Senate Republican Leader Steve Ehlmann and St. Louis Representative Charles Troupe came to the agreement one week after Troupe called Ehlmann a racist.
• 4/11/2000: Radio Story - House Speaker Steve Gaw doesn't support a plan currently awaiting a vote in the Senate that would cut the House size by almost 60.
• 4/ 6/2000: Radio Story - Two days after Representative Troupe called Senate Republican Leader Steve Ehlmann and St. Charles County racists on KMOX radio, each chamber heard a remonstrance chastizing Troupe.
• 4/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - Rep. Quincy Troupe, the black Democrat from St. Louis who ignited a firestorm in the General Assembly when he said a fellow lawmaker is a racist, is the subject of two remonstrances. The measures would express official disapproval of his remarks.
• 4/ 5/2000: Newspaper Story - The bill to toughen the state's Open Meetings Law may be heading for a legislative speed bump.
• 4/ 5/2000: Radio Story - The Senate approved a proposal to cut the size of the House from 163 to 105 Representatives.
• 4/ 4/2000: Radio Story - Two states passed legislation this week mandating safety locks on guns. In Missouri this year the gun lock legislation is basically dead.
• 4/ 4/2000: Newspaper Story - Two bills introduced in the last couple months are not likely to see the light of day, say Missouri legislators. The snail pace which the legislature is proceding at coupled with the safety lock measures' late introduction will likely kill the bill, said lawmakers.
• 4/ 3/2000: Newspaper Story - The bill to toughen Missouri's Open Meetings Law keeps inching closer to its ultimate goal of becoming law.
• 3/27/2000: Radio Story - A St Louis Representative will file for re-election even though her term is up in hopes of having standing for a lawsuit to challenge term limits.
• 3/15/2000: Radio Story - Children rallying against gun violence may be in violation of state lobbying laws because they used tax dollars to pay for a part of their trip to the state capitol.
• 3/15/2000: Radio Story - The sponsor of the Senate bill to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. constitution says the Senate Judiciary Committee wouldn't have passed her bill. She cancelled the last two hearings of the bill in committee. Now, with help from Senator Maxwell the bill will now be heard in a different Committee.
• 3/ 9/2000: Radio Story - President Pro Tem Ed Quick says the membership upheaval caused by impending term limits makes it the perfect time to cut back membership in the House
• 3/ 9/2000: Radio Story - House republicans are intentionally slowing down the legislative process. These tactics are directly related to Democrats freezing the Republicans out of debate on a tobacco bill.
• 3/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - For the last couple of weeks, you might have thought Missouri has become a unicameral legislature -- since there's been just one state legislative chamber actually passing bills at a rapid pace.
• 3/ 8/2000: Radio Story - Because of the undercount in St. Louis the city missed out on 10 million dollars a year in funding. State officials are working hard to correct that problem this year.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - The state's leading Bush supporters say the campaign's website greatly increased volunteer recruitment and fundraising.
• 3/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - Super Tuesday ended with Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore each scoring a resounding victory in Missouri's first permanent presidential primary.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri presidential primaries have a special rule allowing party volunteers to record which party voters were choosing. The Secretary of State, Becky Cook says this is only to please the national party committees.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - As Republicans attend victory celebrations, Democrats continued work at the Capitol.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - After months of delay, the governor finally reveals who he supports in the Democratic presidental race on the day of the Missouri primary.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Bush and Gore supporters celebrated primary victories quite differently at the state capitol Tuesday night.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Bucky Bush says that although his brother's family dominates politics, he and his side of the Bush clan work at the grass roots level
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Bond says the Bush campaign can now begin to direct its attention from McCain and towards Gore
• 3/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - Some state lawmakers argue it may be time to go back to the old caucus system.
• 3/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri will hold its first permanent presidential primary Tuesday, an event expected to draw about one million voters to local polling places.
• 3/ 2/2000: Radio Story - The Reform Party may not be dead, at least if candidate filings are any measure.
• 3/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - U.S. Sen. John Ashcroft has drawn the ire of Democrats for a speech he gave during the May 1999 commencement ceremony at Bob Jones University.
• 3/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Legislation to toughen the state's Open Meetings Law ran into a firestorm of criticism on Wednesday.
• 2/29/2000: Newspaper Story - A bill raising legislators' salaries by $1500 for the next year passed the Senate, with 80% of the lawmakers voting in favor of it.
• 2/29/2000: Radio Story - Sen. Joe Maxwell says a retroactive raise is not given to all state employees, so it shouldn't be given to legislators.
• 2/29/2000: Newspaper Story - Candidates descended on Jefferson City to file for the August party primary in Missouri. Governor and U.S. Senator are up for grabs.
• 2/29/2000: Radio Story - With a busload of supporters with him, Lacy Clay filed for candidacy in the first Congressional district of Missouri.
• 2/28/2000: Newspaper Story - One Senator is trying to make the sun burn a little hotter on government officials who do not cooperate with the law.
• 2/24/2000: Radio Story - Missouri House Democrats dominated a vote that blocked Republicans from making a single amendent to a bill. The bill creates a trust fund for the tobacco settlement money.
• 2/24/2000: Radio Story - With less than one year left on his term, Jay Nixon says he is most proud of restoring respect to the Atttorney General's Office.
• 2/24/2000: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon plans to spend his last year in office fighting methamphetamine in Missouri.
• 2/21/2000: Newspaper Story - In Missouri Republican politics, the runner-up will walk away empty-handed if he comes in a close second.
• 2/16/2000: Newspaper Story - While skipping across the United States on campaign tours, two of the four major Presidential candidates have completely leaped over Missouri.
• 2/15/2000: Radio Story - Respresentative Jack Hickey sponsors a bill to construct a memorial for workers killed in Missouri construction projects.
• 2/15/2000: Newspaper Story - A House bill seeks to mandate training for all succesful candidates for county sheriff before they take office.
• 2/ 9/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri Census Bureau is looking for people that can speak Spanish to help conduct this year's count.
• 2/ 9/2000: Radio Story - Several lobbyists spoke in favor of a resolution that would increase term limits to 12 years from 8.
• 2/ 9/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri Census Bureau is looking for people that can speak Spanish to help conduct this year's count.
• 2/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - A virtual auction house pulled the plug Friday on a Missouri man who was trying to sell such domain names as www.killbillclinton.com. The move came after a report from Missouri Digital News.
• 2/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon says Bill Bradley is a good candidate because of his positions on campaign finance reform and health care. Governor Carnahan says he's not endorsing anybody.
• 2/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - Since 1999, both Jim Talent and Bob Holden collected single-check campaign contributions that exceed the $1,125 legal limit.
• 2/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - Since running for governor, the top two contenders have raised approximately $3 million in single-check contributions above the on-again, off-again $1,125 legal limit.
• 2/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley has picked up his second endorsement from a statewide Missouri official.
• 2/ 3/2000: Newspaper Story - A St. Charles man has registered Internet domain names that references killing the president of the United States and major-party candidates in the 2000 election.
• 2/ 2/2000: Radio Story - St. Louis Representative, Ron Auer's proposal to form a commission to study and report on the growht of St. Louis, met with a lot of opposition.
• 2/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Today, legislators are allowed to drink alcoholic beverages in the Capitol. If one bill from Republican Bill Foster passes, this will no longer be possible.
• 1/27/2000: Radio Story - A state representative is hoping to make the state capitol alcohol-free. If the bill passes, alcohol would no longer be allowed in the state capitol starting in 2002.
• 1/24/2000: Radio Story - Lieutenant Governor Candidate Joe Maxwell says that he is willing to give back funds raised before the Supreme Court's decision.
• 1/24/2000: Newspaper Story - The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Missouri's campaign finance limits on individual contributions.
• 1/19/2000: Newspaper Story - The final State of the State address by Gov. Mel Carnahan ended with a serenade from children.
• 1/19/2000: Radio Story - Republican candidate for governor Jim Talent gave a speech he called the "Republican State of the State" today in the capitol.
• 1/19/2000: Radio Story - The Governor's State of the State Address draws sharp criticism from Republicans who say the governor lacks leadership.
• 1/19/2000: Radio Story - While top-GOP candidate for governor, Jim Talent gave a speech one after Gov. Carnahan's own speech, Democrat governor hopefull, Bob Holden preferred to stay out of the limelight.
• 1/18/2000: Radio Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan will look back on his work as governor in his State of the State Address on Wednesday.
• 1/18/2000: Radio Story - The Consumer Protection committee is currently debating a bill restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail, commonly known as "spam mail."
• 1/18/2000: Radio Story - Democratic and Republican senators disagree on how Missouri's tobacco settlement money ought to be used.
• 1/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Next January one of Columbia's own legislators could have the best seat in the House.
• 1/17/2000: Radio Story - One of the top-ranked candidates for Missouri's House Speaker has dropped out of the race.
• 1/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Although the election isn't until January, the Speaker of the House race has already dropped one of its possible contendors.
• 1/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis County, and a couple other legislators are calling Columbia "Infanticide City" in the wake of last year's Partial Birth Abortion Debate.
• 1/12/2000: Radio Story - The hiring of Senate Majority Leader Ronnie DePasco's nephew by the state ethics commission raises questions of whether or not DePasco was involved.
• 1/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Ethics Commission hires the nephew of a legislative leader.
• 1/11/2000: Radio Story - A lawmaker has proposed a bill to refund long distance charges for people trying to reach state officials if they instead reach their voice mail.