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Stories by Chris Pelikan include:

• 11/ 1/1999: Radio Story - An interim-house committee met on Monday and grilled representatives from major meat producers in Missouri about the family farm crisis.
• 10/25/1999: Radio Story - Missouri's governor apologizes for appearing in a black minstrel show nearly 40 years ago.
• 9/30/1999: Newspaper Story - After courts knocked out partial-birth abortion laws in other states, Missouri's own ban faces a long struggle.
• 8/25/1999: Radio Story - The K-16 educational coaliton met on Wednesday in Jefferson City to begin preparing recommendations aimed at improving the transition from high school to college
• 4/28/1999: Radio Story - Representatives from the city of Bridgeton and public officials protested a bill which would pave the way for the proposed expansion of Lambert's runway
• 4/19/1999: Radio Story - The Senate Committe on Finance held a hearing on HB 971 which would strip the city of Bridgeton of its zoning rights.
• 4/12/1999: Newspaper Story - As part of Tom Bass' induction into the Hall of Famous Missourians, a procession of horseback riders crossed the Missouri River Bridge, stopping traffic for 30 minutes.
• 3/31/1999: Newspaper Story - After it was learned that the U.S. Attorney's office, in Missouri, was using its business line to direct efforts against the concealed weapons ammendment to be voted on in Missouri on April 5th
• 3/31/1999: Radio Story - Eight Missouri legislators met at the Police Chief's Association in order to express concern regarding the financing of the pro-Propisiton B campaign
• 3/10/1999: Radio Story - The proposed 1-W1 runway expansion at Lambert Field was viewed by a house committee in terms of its zoning
• 3/ 8/1999: Newspaper Story - Walter Cronkite, the distinguished CBS newsman, was inducted into the "Hall of Famous Missourians" on Monday evening.
• 3/ 1/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Lieutenant Governor, Roger Wilson, announced on Monday that he will not seek re-election as the state's lieutenant governor. Wilson cited excessive government and the overall negative effects of campaigning as his reasons.
• 2/22/1999: Newspaper Story - Ken Rothman, Missouri's Lieutenant Governor from 1980-1984 and former speaker of the Missouri House has confirmed that he will file a law suit through several undisclosed legislators to seek the repealing of term limits.
• 2/22/1999: Newspaper Story - In a news release issued by the Missouri Catholic Conference, a stay of all executions was requested. James Rodden, who is scheduled to die on Wednesday, is the first individual set to be executed since Gov Mel Carnahan commuted the death sentence of convicted murderer Darrell Mease at the request of the Pope
• 2/17/1999: Newspaper Story - 29 year senate veteran, John Schneider, has presented a joint senate resolution that would repeal term limits and would then place term limits on the positions of speaker of the house and senate pro tem.
• 2/10/1999: Radio Story - In light of recent economic prosperity, the Missouri senate works to give the people of Missouri a tax break.
• 2/ 8/1999: Newspaper Story - Rep. Brian May, D-St. Louis, has presented legislation that would clarify current bribery statutes and would redefine the term public servant, thus making it illegal for all public officials, paid or not, to be subject to state bribery laws.
• 2/ 3/1999: Radio Story - Republican Senator David Klarich of St. Louis County presented legislation to the senate civil justice committee that would not recognize same sex marriages in Missouri. The bill would prevent gay couples from receiving the same benefits as heterosexual couples.
• 2/ 1/1999: Newspaper Story - Columbia Representative, Chuck Graham, has proposed legislation that would repeal the presidential primary in the state of Missouri. The primary, in its current state, is a waste of money and accomplishes nothing, according to Graham.
• 2/ 1/1999: Newspaper Story - In his first appearance in front of Missouri statehouse reporters, Gov. Mel Carnahan explained his reasons for commuting the death sentence of Darrell Mease, a convicted murder of three.
• 1/27/1999: Radio Story - Two ammendments were introduced to alter Proposition A, an initiative that passed on a November ballot involving animal fighting.
• 1/25/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri's House Speaker forms a committee to review the tobacco settlement agreement.
• 1/20/1999: Newspaper Story - In his annual state of the state address, Gov. Mel Carnahan proposed the merger of existing labor agencies to form one agency dedicated to handling all issues of unemployment benefits and job training.
• 1/13/1999: Newspaper Story - Two republican senators proposed a new plan that would send the money gained from Missouri's settlement with tobacco companies into an escrow account to earn interest.