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Stories by Jennifer Lutz include:

• 5/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - Although those who do not receive welfare might not have heard it, a large clock in the state of Missouri began ticking July 1, 1997.
• 5/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - The March 2000 Social Services Department statistics about who receives a TANF check.
• 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.
• 4/26/2000: Newspaper Story - If one state legislator had his way, the University of Missouri system would have been eliminated from receiving any building improvement funds from the state for the upcoming fiscal year.
• 4/19/2000: Newspaper Story - Norm Stewart's golden parachute caught fire from Missouri's state auditor on Wednesday.
• 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/ 5/2000: Newspaper Story - The bill to toughen the state's Open Meetings Law may be heading for a legislative speed bump.
• 4/ 3/2000: The bill to toughen Missouri's Open Meetings Law keeps inching closer to its ultimate goal of becoming law.
• 3/15/2000: Newspaper Story - Children demonstrating for gun safety has triggered accusations of illegal lobbying by a top GOP legislator.
• 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/ 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/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - Some state lawmakers argue it may be time to go back to the old caucus system.
• 3/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Legislation to toughen the state's Open Meetings Law ran into a firestorm of criticism on Wednesday.
• 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.
• 2/28/2000: Newspaper Story - Various agencies reached an agreement whether mentally retarded people should be excluded from receiving the death penalty.
• 2/23/2000: Newspaper Story - Supporters, opponents spoke in the Capitol debating two ERA bills in the General Assembly.
• 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/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - Currently, it is illegal for the University of Missouri to charge tuition.
• 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.
• 1/26/2000: Newspaper Story - Although the ground wasn't covered in a blanket of snow, students still woke up to the happy sounds of 'no school today.'
• 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.
• 1/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Next January one of Columbia's own legislators could have the best seat in the House.
• 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 - Missouri's Ethics Commission hires the nephew of a legislative leader.