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Stories by Liz Cafer include:

• 5/ 4/1998: Radio Story - Despite Republican protests, the Missouri House approved a bill that would expand Medicaid to families with incomes up to three times the federal poverty level.
• 4/28/1998: Radio Story - The bill has already passed through the House, but the Senate Transportation Committee heard opposition Tuesday.
• 4/28/1998: Radio Story - A bill to reduce the frequency of auto inspections from every year to every two years met opposition in the Senate Transportation Committee.
• 4/21/1998: Radio Story - Parents would be able to obtain criminal backgrounds checks on day-care workers over a toll-free number under a bill that pass through the House.
• 4/14/1998: Radio Story - The NAACP urges lawmakers to change the bill passed by the Senate to settle the court-ordered school desegregation case.
• 4/ 8/1998: Radio Story - Neglecting or abusing your pets could put you in jail if a Senate bill makes it through the House.
• 4/ 7/1998: Radio Story - Participants in welfare-to-work programs would not be able to take already existing jobs under a House bill.
• 3/31/1998: Radio Story - Most citizens try to avoid as many taxes as possible. But a bill in the House would give them the right to tax themselves.
• 3/25/1998: Radio Story - To keep in competition with nearby states, a senate bill would provide an incentive for young people to join the Missouri National Guard.
• 3/11/1998: Radio Story - Missouri due to pneumonia and influenza surpassed the 10-year average by 200.
• 2/25/1998: Radio Story - A House committee debates whether to decriminalize the state's laws against homosexual act.
• 2/24/1998: Radio Story - Reginald Powell's final appeal to Governor Carnahan was rejected.
• 2/18/1998: Radio Story - Students enterin programs with a shortage of qualified employees could get state suppport under legislation presented to a committee.
• 2/10/1998: Radio Story - Doctors told state lawmakers that hospitals aren't doing enough to protect hospital workers and patients.
• 2/ 4/1998: Radio Story - Dona Carroll's husband may lose his job because of the requirement for officers to live in St. Louis.
• 2/ 3/1998: Radio Story - Missouri to be a national test of how to handle any possiblee worldwide inluenza pandemic.
• 1/29/1998: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers hear it will take a pile of cash to get the federal court out of the St. Louis school system.
• 1/27/1998: Radio Story - Drivers who ignore their parking tickets may find themselves without a driver's license.
• 1/20/1998: Radio Story - A House bill would require Missouri students to remain in school until age 18 or lose their driver's licenses.
• 1/19/1998: Radio Story - The debate over Missouri's state language hinges on one word. English as the "official" state language has fizzled in past bills, but a new proposal calls it the "common" language. Missourians voiced their concerns to lawmakers.
• 1/17/1998: Radio Story - Some lawmakers say sales tax money is being given to retail-store developers who don't need subsidizing.