NBC's woman in Sacramento

Reuters, Dec. 9 -- "Maria Shriver said on Tuesday that she had returned to her job as a NBC News television reporter after taking leave while her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned to become California's governor. 'I actually went back to work two weeks ago,' Shriver told a lunch gathering."

LAT, today -- Maria Shriver, Valley's Richman Bring Talks Back From the Dead

"[After talks collapsed] she spoke to the governor's chief lobbyist in the Capitol, Richard Costigan. She also joined her husband at a conference in Palm Springs for the California congressional delegation. There, she spoke about the budget impasse with Leon Panetta, the former chief of staff to President Clinton... On Sunday, Shriver took part in a conference call with the governor and his advisors in which they agreed to press for a resumption of talks."