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Stories by Darryl Franklin include:

• 5/ 5/2004: Radio Story - Today marked the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo. Despite the festive atmosphere around most of the Americas, few in the Missouri legislature were celebrating the occasion.
• 4/28/2004: Radio Story - John Kerry accepts an invitation from Westminister College President Fletcher Lamkin to speak at the Fulton college. The speech comes four days after Vice-President Dick Cheney offered what some viewed as a politically motivated speech from the same podium on Monday.
• 4/ 7/2004: Radio Story - The issue of restricting the definition of marriage to a man and a woman is one of the most hotly debated issues in the Missouri lesgislature this session.
• 3/17/2004: Radio Story - Democratic Senators marked the halfway point in the legislature by criticizing Republican lawmakers. Two areas Democrats are particularily frustrated with are Medicaid and Education.
• 3/ 3/2004: Radio Story - Lawmakers say that there's a need to more narrowly restrict the definition of marriage. Gay rights supporters say Missourians say the House and Senate have better things to do with their time than restricting marriage.
• 3/ 3/2004: Radio Story - More than 200 people showed up today as part of PROMO's annual rally in support of gay rights.
• 2/25/2004: Radio Story - More than sixty people gathered in the Rotunda to show their support of the second ammendment. Maida Coleman says that the right to carry has a greater implication than in others.
• 2/25/2004: Radio Story - Although the state legislature isn't currently debating the right to carry guns, the issue is still receiving attention in the state capital building. Many representatives from the second ammendment coalition of Missouri were on hand. They stressed that there's more issues involved in the second ammendment than simply the right to carry.
• 2/25/2004: Radio Story - About sixty people showed up in the state capital's rotunda today to show their support of the second ammendment. This year's rally was smaller this year because the conceal and carry issue has been decided by the legislature and is now in the hands of the courts.
• 2/11/2004: Radio Story - The House of Representatives voted down a bill that would have changed the name of Southwest Missouri State University.
• 2/11/2004: Radio Story - The House voted down a bill that would change the name of Southwest Missouri State University.
• 2/ 4/2004: Radio Story - State legislators reacted this week to the Massachusetts supreme Court ruling on gay marriage.
• 2/ 4/2004: Radio Story - Missouri legislators reacted this week to the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage.
• 1/28/2004: Radio Story - A filibuster has erupted in Missouri's Senate over a proposal to rename Southwest Missouri State University to Missouri State University.