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Stories by Lynda Gledhill include:

• 5/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Like a body that keeps twitching after its dead, efforts to soften federal welfare reform remained a possibiity in Missouri's legislature Wednesday.
• 5/13/1997: Newspaper Story - House leaders scrambled Tuesday to find a way to bring welfare reform to the House floor after Monday's night rejection of the bill by the House Budget Committee.
• 5/ 7/1997: Newspaper Story - Coalition of Republicans and black Democrats defeat welfare reform in committee.
• 4/30/1997: Newspaper Story - Republicans unanimously voted against the House version of welfare reform when it passed out of committee Wednesday night.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - After refusing to discuss the issue last week, Attorney General Jay Nixon announced Tuesday he is joining the tobacco lawsuits.
• 4/23/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate floor leader laughed when he heard the House voted for the legislature to take over the entire Capitol.
• 4/22/1997: Newspaper Story - A standing-room only crowd packed a House hearing room to hear testimoney on the welfare reform bill.
• 4/16/1997: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan might be packing up and moving out of the state Capitol under a resolution passed by the House Budget Committee.
• 4/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's welfare agency says it is not sure it wants to test welfare recipients for drugs, as the Senate proposed in its version of welfare reform.
• 4/ 7/1997: Newspaper Story - An unusual coalition of liberal, conservative, male and female lawmakers say deadbeat parent legislation has gone too far.
• 4/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Children raised their voices in song at the Capital Wednesday to remind lawmakers their decisions on welfare affect some of Missouri's children.
• 3/26/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate passes legislation to overhaul the state's welfare system.
• 3/25/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed a bill that would allow revocation of driver's or professional licenses only if a court determined the ability to pay.
• 3/19/1997: Newspaper Story - A new version of the welfare reform bill making its way through the Senate limtis the amount of money the state can spend, regardless of how many people seek assistance.
• 3/18/1997: Newspaper Story - Deadbeat parents would face the wrath of the state under legislation approved by the House.
• 3/ 5/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate votes to eliminate the annual auto-safety inspection.
• 3/ 4/1997: Newspaper Story - The sponsor of the Senate wefare bill said he plans to meet with the Senate Minority Leader after next week's recess.
• 2/20/1997: A House committee approves tougher enforcement of child support.
• 2/19/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate approves a hike in the legislative expense allowance.
• 2/18/1997: Welfare reform implementation sent to the full Senate.
• 2/12/1997: Newspaper Story - Critics charge bill to crackdown on deadbeat dads treats men as "sperm donors with checkbooks."
• 2/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - The Senate's special welfare committee chair calls for going slow on welfare reform implementation.
• 2/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - The legislature and the Social Services department are gearing up to control the welfare reform proposlas in the state.
• 2/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - The changes in the food stamp programs are already being felt in some parts of Missouri.
• 2/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - In his State of the State address, Gov. Carnahan emphasized crime, education and day care.
• 1/22/1997: Newspaper Story - New prisons tops governor's legislative agenda presented to lawmakers.
• 1/22/1997: Newspaper Story - MU would get the smallest budget boost of any university under the governor's plan.