MISSOURIANA

Americans continue to run up more debt with loans and credit cards. After watching Washington all these years, most citizens just supposed this was national policy.

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A federal judge says state taxpayers can stop sending millions of dollars to Kansas City schools by 1999. For Missourians, the millennium is coming early.

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A St. Louis newspaper has sponsored a study on why residents are leaving the city. The best guess so far: They want to live elsewhere.

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President Clinton urges U.S. churches to provide a job to one person on welfare -- and a missionary for every member of Congress.

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Missouri senators approved a bill to end annual auto inspections on the grounds they are inconvenient. So is spending six months in a hospital after your car brakes fail.

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Flood are becoming so frequent in Missouri that the state symbol should be the sandbag, and the state motto should be "Call the National Guard ... Again."