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Stories by Suzanne Bessette include:

• 12/11/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov.-elect Bob Holden and the legislature face a $24.5 billion funding question when next year's legislative session begins. MoDOT is turning over the funding of its 20-year long-range plan to the legislature and Missouri voters -- leaving some skeptical that the plan will ever be fully funded.
• 11/29/2000: Newspaper Story - A U.S. Supreme Court decision banning random drug searches on roadways will not have a great effect in Missouri, state law officials said.
• 11/15/2000: Newspaper Story - Top Missouri Republicans are investigating the legality of Joe Maxwell's early appointment to lieutenant governor.
• 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/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Profiles on the leading candidates for Missouri lieutenant governor.
• 11/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Profiles on the leading candidates for Missouri lieutenant governor.
• 11/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Profiles on the leading candidates for Missouri lieutenant governor.
• 10/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Lieutenant Gov. Roger Wilson will assume the title of governor -- a position he has not coveted.
• 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: The campaign to restrict billboards launches a series of news conferences attacking their opponents' TV ads.
• 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.
• 9/25/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri joins nine other states to split $1.9 billion, by fulfilling federal requirements to spend money allotted to their children's insurance programs.
• 9/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's program for educationally at-risk middle schools received its first federal grant Wednesday.
• 9/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri Farm Bureau will host Cuban Ambassador Fernando Remirez next week in the Bootheel.
• 9/13/2000: Newspaper Story - Fond farwells rather than overrides dominated the attention of the Missouri legislature's veto session.
• 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 - 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/ 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.
• 8/28/2000: Newspaper Story - A new Missouri law went into effect Monday, restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail and giving recipients the right to sue for $500.
• 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.
• 8/23/2000: Newspaper Story - Ralph Nader's Green Party was certified for Missouri's November ballot.