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I'm covering Missouri state government for my beginning broadcast reporting course at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Stories by Jennifer Sheffield include:

• 12/ 9/1997: Radio Story - The Jefferson City High School Choir sings Christmas music in sixty year tradition.
• 12/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Bussinesses will receive written notice of bad beer.
• 12/ 2/1997: Radio Story - While activists were worrying about the spotted-owl's survival, biologists say one Missouri animal has probably become extinct.
• 11/20/1997: Radio Story - If the state Senate Republican leader gets his way, businesses would have a harder time meeting requirements for tax subsidies.
• 11/18/1997: Radio Story - Missouri law-makers will get another attempt to criminalize partial-birth abortions.
• 11/13/1997: Radio Story - The gambling industry splits over seeking repeal of a legal limit on how much can be lost per day by a Missouri gambler.
• 11/ 4/1997: Radio Story - State prisons take in more than three times as many criminals with non-violent convictions as those with violent convictions.
• 10/28/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's Public Safety Department tells how to keep your ghosts and goblins safe this summer.
• 10/14/1997: Radio Story - Mother nature will color with more vivid shades of red, yellow, and orange this year says state foresters.
• 10/14/1997: Radio Story - Scientists have discovered two new types of wild flowers growing in Missouri.
• 10/ 7/1997: Radio Story - The governor plans anti-meth legislation by December.
• 10/ 7/1997: Radio Story - Heroin and methamphetamine abusers should suffer the same penalties according to a top Missouri prosecutor.
• 10/ 2/1997: When the Missouri food tax law went into effect only items covered by food stamps received the cut, but restrictions on where you can get the tax-break also apply.
• 10/ 2/1997: Radio Story - Proposed methamphetamine regulations would make it harder to buy cold medicine.
• 9/30/1997: Radio Story - Grocery shoppers expecting to pay no sales tax will get to the register needing a few more nickels and dimes.
• 9/23/1997: Radio Story - Quail numbers are up, and that's good news for Missouri hunters.
• 9/18/1997: Radio Story - A debate concerning the legislature's power over administrative rules slowed down progress of the economic development bill.
• 9/16/1997: Radio Story - A top Missouri business organization is opposing a health insurance requirement the House stuck onto an economic development bill.
• 9/11/1997: Radio Story - The lone Republican who voted against the partial-birth abortion over-ride has the support of the party leader.
• 9/ 9/1997: Radio Story - The top senate leader of the democrat party says he will vote to over-ride the governor's partial-birth abortion veto.
• 9/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Customizing your telephone number with catchy endings could become possible, but at a cost in Jefferson City.
• 9/ 2/1997: Radio Story - The state's child support enforcement agency delays new dead-beat parent penalties