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Stories by Joseph Morton include:

• 5/18/1996: Democrats and Republicans blaim each other for death of tax cuts in legislature.
• 5/18/1996: Overview of education issues before the 1996 legislative session.
• 5/16/1996: Senate passes limited abortion-regulation bill.
• 5/15/1996: Lobbyists pay $1,000 each to eat with a few dozen legislators (newspaper wrap of Wednesday's legislative developments).
• 5/14/1996: Senate debates killer roosters while other major issues sit on the sidelines.
• 5/13/1996: Predatory sex offenders would face life-time state supervision under bill sent to the governor.
• 5/ 8/1996: Governor's Safe Schools bill swamped with Senate Amendments.
• 5/ 8/1996: Tax-cut inaction, budget passage, bill veto & expanded liquor merchandizing rights top Tuesday's legislative actions.
• 5/ 7/1996: House rejects efforts by black legislators to restrict alcohol advertising in minority areas.
• 4/24/1996: Senate Education Committee approved a measure to let voters decide whether to split forfeitures between schools, police.
• 4/23/1996: Senate approves reinstating a type of local sales tax.
• 4/16/1996: Senate committee removes key part of governor's "Safe Schools" proposal.
• 4/ 5/1996: Education Department on schedule with its curricula frameworks.
• 4/ 5/1996: Opponents still attacking Education Department's new standards.
• 4/ 1/1996: NRA opposition kills effort to revive the concealed weapons bill.
• 3/28/1996: Concealed weapons bill is defeated by the Senate.
• 3/ 6/1996: House rejects effort to take KC desegregation funds out of the budget.
• 3/ 1/1996: Republican House members are trying to make the Education Department's standards subject to legislative approval.
• 2/27/1996: Senate filibuster forces speed-limit compromise.
• 2/21/1996: Senate delays action on speed-limit bill.
• 2/20/1996: Deadline passes for legislature to veto proposed education standards.
• 2/14/1996: State legislators are debating the best ways to make Missouri's schools safer.
• 2/ 7/1996: Senate Education Committee rejects changing school-standards law.
• 2/ 2/1996: Governor's Safe Schools plan approved by committees.
• 1/24/1996: Driver's license loss proposed as threat to keep kids in school.
• 1/17/1996: Republicans accuse Democratic governor of sounding like a GOPer in his legislative program.
• 1/16/1996: Governor proposes sales tax cut, GOP charges it's politics.
• 1/12/1996: Profile on leadership style of Missouri's new House speaker.
• 1/11/1996: The Legislative Black Caucus got exactly what it wanted out of the speaker race - a black pro tem.
• 1/ 5/1996: The Senate's president pro tem opens the session hitting welfare reform hard