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Stories by Lee McGuire include:

• 2/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon says Bill Bradley is a good candidate because of his positions on campaign finance reform and health care. Governor Carnahan says he's not endorsing anybody.
• 2/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon says Bill Bradley is a good candidate because of his positions on campaign finance reform and health care. Governor Carnahan says he's not endorsing anybody.

• 11/17/1999: Radio Story - Two state lawmakers (Flotron, Marble) have joined with Associated Industries of Missouri to ask the state to increase the amount of Hancock refunds.
• 10/ 6/1999: Radio Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan and Senator John Ashcroft explain why they think Judge Ronnie White was not confirmed to the federal bench.
• 10/ 6/1999: Radio Story - The Governor's school violence task force spent seven months working on this plan to keep kids safe in schools.
• 10/ 5/1999: Radio Story - The Allegheny Institute, a pro-deregulation public interest group, says Southwestern Bell has claimed millions of dollars in assets it doesn't have, pushing rates higher.
• 5/14/1999: Radio Story - With just hours left in this year's session, state lawmakers drafted and approved a bill to help laid-off workers at Boeing's St. Louis plant start new businesses.
• 5/ 5/1999: Newspaper Story - The legislature approved the appropriations bill that effectively cuts off funding for family planning services.
• 5/ 5/1999: Newspaper Story - The legislature approved the appropriations bill that effectively cuts off funding for family planning services.
• 4/26/1999: Radio Story - Senator Wayne Goode (D-St. Louis County) proposed a bill that would create a graduated driver's license system.
• 4/19/1999: Radio Story - The Senate has voted to ban all funding to abortion clinics.
• 4/13/1999: Radio Story - The legislature will consider asking voters to decide whether term limits should continue.
• 4/ 5/1999: Radio Story - The Secretary of State says 1 in 4 is a high proportion for an April election.
• 3/30/1999: Radio Story - Missourians Against Crime raised more than 2 million dollars; Safe Schools and Workplaces came up with $750,000.
• 3/23/1999: Radio Story - Lobbyists for car dealers and manufacturers are working the state capital this week to swing opinions in their favor.
• 3/ 1/1999: Radio Story - Roger Wilson says he is getting out of politics.
• 2/22/1999: Radio Story - With the 15-year plan in pieces, the Highway Department is looking to the state legislature to help them get more money.
• 2/16/1999: Radio Story - Rep. Marsha Campbell (D-Kansas City) is making her third attempt at requiring bounty hunters to be licensed.
• 2/ 9/1999: Radio Story - A Senate committee debated what to do with the windfall once it starts coming in next year.
• 2/ 1/1999: Radio Story - The Governor says it was the personal request from the Pope which prompted him to take Mease off death row.
• 1/28/1999: Radio Story - By not rejecting a proposal by the state Salary Commission, the Legislature has approved the new pay scale by default.
• 1/21/1999: Radio Story - The circuit court has handed Missouri's Secretary of State power to write the ballot description for the concealed weapons proposal -- throwing out the leigslative description.

• 12/16/1998: Radio Story - 9th-district Congressman Kenny Hulshof says he will vote for the first three articles, but not the fourth.
• 12/10/1998: Radio Story - The Carnahan administration is launching a campaign to bring the cost of going to school down.
• 12/ 8/1998: Radio Story - The Governor's spokesman indicates Carnahan is taking a hands-off approach regarding Bob Griffin's request for clemency
• 12/ 3/1998: Radio Story - Fifty students and the governor decorated the Capitol Christmas tree with home-made ornaments. But some of the kids had a better idea.
• 12/ 1/1998: Radio Story - Senator Peter Kinder (R-Cape Girardeau) has prefiled a bill that would make it a Class A felony to perform a partial-birth abortion in Missouri.
• 11/19/1998: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon has signed an agreement that would require the tobacco industry to pay Missouri more than $6 billion over the next 25 years.
• 11/19/1998: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon has signed an agreement that would require the tobacco industry to pay Missouri more than $6 billion over the next 25 years.
• 11/17/1998: Radio Story - Lawmakers say the Hancock Lid may force the tobacco settlement money to be refunded to Missouri taxpayers.
• 11/17/1998: Radio Story - Lawmakers say the Hancock Lid may force the tobacco settlement money to be refunded to Missouri taxpayers.
• 11/12/1998: Radio Story - At least two House Republicans are distancing themselves from a statement released by the Republican Party.
• 11/10/1998: Radio Story - The Transportation Department abandons the 15-year construction program.
• 11/ 5/1998: Radio Story - State Republicans didn't gain any seats in the November elections; now they're switching gears and pushing new issues.
• 11/ 5/1998: Radio Story - Members of the Missouri Legislature selected their new leadership Thursday, and talked about the Governor's decision to run for Senate in 2000.
• 11/ 5/1998: Radio Story - The St. Louis metro area is left out of the top legislative leadership slots for the first time in more than three decades.
• 10/29/1998: Radio Story - St. Louis area drivers will have to get their cars inspected every two years for ozone emissions. The state has begun accepting bids for who will build the inspection stations.
• 10/27/1998: Radio Story - Carnahan addressed law enforcement officials and legislators at the second annual "Meth Summit" in Jefferson City.
• 10/22/1998: Radio Story - Gov. Carnahan asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help pay for an estimated $8.4 million in damage after this month's Kansas City flooding.
• 10/20/1998: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon says Senator Kit Bond allowed political patronage to influence his decisions on pardons. Bond denies the charge, and says Nixon is being reckless.
• 10/15/1998: Radio Story - The Missouri Public Service Commission says the Laclede Gas Company failed to properly inspect a leaking gas line which later exploded.
• 10/ 8/1998: Radio Story - What we learned from the major flooding in 1993 helped prepare us for events like this week's high river levels.
• 10/ 8/1998: Radio Story - Officials predicted the Missouri River would jump its banks and put the airport under water-- but it didn't happen.
• 10/ 8/1998: Radio Story - The director of the State Emergency Management Agency wants the President to free up federal funds to help flood victims.
• 10/ 7/1998: Newspaper Story - If Pres. Bill Clinton were a Missouri government employee, his relations with Monica Lewinksky could have cost him his job.
• 10/ 6/1998: Radio Story - Some state executive departments prohibit sexual relationships between some kinds of co-workers; others do not.
• 9/29/1998: Radio Story - The Missouri Bar asked lawyers to evaluate the performance of 45 judges up for reinstatement.
• 9/24/1998: Radio Story - A retired state Supreme Court judge is appearing in a riverboat gambling ad.
• 9/22/1998: Radio Story - St. Louis County Representative Todd Akin says the state gambling industry is bending the truth with its latest advertisements.
• 9/17/1998: Radio Story - Term limits have ended the Senate career of Jefferson County democrat and president pro term Bill McKenna.
• 9/15/1998: Radio Story - Senate President pro term Bill McKenna (D-Barnhart) will bang the gavel for the last time Thursday.
• 9/15/1998: Radio Story - The Governor's office says it does not expect legislators to challenge any of the Governor's vetoes.
• 9/10/1998: Radio Story - The fallout from Ken Starr's report on President Clinton is reaching far beyond Washington, to the Missouri State House.
• 9/ 8/1998: Radio Story - The Missouri Supreme Court heard opening arguments in a case that questions the sexual predator law.
• 9/ 1/1998: Radio Story - Several GOP lawmakers call for federal oversight of Missouri's November elections.
• 9/ 1/1998: Radio Story - Missouri has made financial gains from rising bond prices caused by falling stock prices.
• 8/27/1998: Radio Story - Missouri officials say the financial problems in Asia will have little impact on the state