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The Daily Rundown — Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Your five-minute catch-up for Wednesday, July 15. Here’s what matters on our stretch of the river today. Around the Counties Missouri will start tracking tick-borne illness cases statewide. Gov. Mike…
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A New Front Door: Voluntary Action Center’s Opportunity Campus Fully Opens This Week
If you or a neighbor are ever in a hard spot, it helps to know exactly where the door is. This week, Columbia’s Voluntary Action…
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River Relief Turns 25 by Cleaning Our Stretch of the Missouri — Glasgow and Boonville Dates Set
Missouri River Relief is turning 25 this year, and the group is marking it the way you’d hope: with the biggest cleanup effort it has…
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Before Your Next Trail Walk: What to Know About Ticks — and a New Missouri Law
If you’ve been out on the Katy Trail or working in the garden this summer, you’ve probably already pulled a tick off yourself or the dog. It’s that season — and this month, Missouri quietly changed how seriously the state takes one of the stranger…
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A 60-Foot Mural Now Watches Over the Treloar Elevator
If you’ve driven the back roads between here and Rocheport’s stretch of the Katy Land Trust corridor, you know the old Treloar…
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Boone County’s Jail Tax Question Moves to November: What Prop L Would Do
If you’ve heard talk of a new Boone County jail tax, mark your calendar for November instead of August — the county…
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The MR340 Paddles Past Our Bluffs This Month
If you’re out on the Katy Trail the last week of July and you see someone paddling past who looks like they haven’t slept in…
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MDC’s New 2026 Hunting Booklets Are Out, and the Antler-Point Rule Is Gone
If you hunt deer, turkey, or waterfowl anywhere near Rocheport, it’s worth a few minutes this weekend to look at the new regulations. The Missouri…
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Farm backing, Trump loyalty shape GOP race to replace Sam Graves in Missouri’s 6th District
By Annelise Hanshaw, Steph Quinn, Missouri Independent MARYVILLE — At a shrimp boil on a farm south of town July 1, Missouri Soybean Association President Casey Wasser stood before a crowd to explain why Kansas City Councilman Nathan Willett is the only candidate the association…
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Kansas City keeps approving subsidies without knowing whether they work
By Patrick Tuohey, Missouri Independent Kansas City Councilmember Andrea Bough made one of the most revealing statements about Kansas City’s economic development…
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Northeast Missouri state Senate race tests GOP appetite for confrontation
By Rudi Keller, Missouri Independent Two entire states — Connecticut and Rhode Island — could fit within the boundaries of northeast Missouri’s…
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Cori Bush targets Wesley Bell’s Israel stance in St. Louis congressional rematch
By Rebecca Rivas, Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent Wesley Bell and Cori Bush’s political careers were shaped by the protest movement that erupted in Ferguson in…
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Missouri Gov. Kehoe signs controversial ‘born-alive’ abortion bill into law
By Anna Spoerre, Missouri Independent On Monday, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed into law the only significant anti-abortion bill Republicans were able to pass this…
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About Rocheport
Rocheport, MO — a historic river town of ~200 on the Missouri River bluffs. Home to Katy Trail trailhead, award-winning wineries, and a strong sense of community.
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How Daniel Boone’s Sons Put the Salt in “Boonslick”
If you’ve ever wondered where the Boonslick region gets its name, the answer is a couple hours’ drive from Rocheport, on Missouri Highway 187 near…
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How Daniel Boone’s Sons Put the Salt in “Boonslick”
If you’ve ever wondered why this whole stretch of the Missouri River — Rocheport included — gets called the Boonslick, or Boonslick Country, the answer…
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Tick season on the Katy Trail: what a Rocheport hiker should know
If you are heading out on the Katy Trail this month, you are walking straight through tick country. Rocheport sits where the trail runs along…
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Through the Bluff: The Rocheport Tunnel and the Pictographs It Erased
Just west of Rocheport, the Katy Trail does something it does nowhere else along its 240 miles: it goes straight into the bluff. For a…