Tag: Boone County
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Boone County’s Jail Tax Question Moves to November: What Prop L Would Do
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If you’ve heard talk of a new Boone County jail tax, mark your calendar for November instead of August — the county commission pushed the vote back a few months this spring, and the measure…
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The Boone County Lawmaker Who Won Missouri Its University
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Drive through Columbia today and Mizzou feels like it’s always just been there. It wasn’t a given. Missouri had to decide where to put its state university, and six centrally located counties all wanted it.…
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Annie Fisher: The Boone County Baker Who Built a Nationwide Empire
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Before overnight shipping existed, before anyone dreamed of ordering food from across the country with a click, orders for Annie Fisher’s beaten biscuits were arriving in Columbia from New York, Denver, and Los Angeles. Fisher…