I was feeling particularly lazy yesterday after my Root Cellar story got put on hold and I couldn't come up with anything worthy to do, so I was relieved when Ann tossed a bit of news at me that we'd missed: a half-cent tax on the Boone County Fairgrounds had been passed that morning. KMIZ had a two-sentence blurb on it (which was actually inaccurate), so I started making phone calls at about 2 p.m. I needed to leave at 3:30 to pick up Molly from the airport so I wasn't sure how much I'd be able to get done, especially after I learned that all three county commissioners were in a meeting until 3 and I couldn't get ahold of the manager of the fairgrounds on my first call, either. But patience and persistence paid off, and I filed my story at 3:28 and headed out to the airport. Sometimes we just luck out. It was a teeny tiny story, but it answered the immediate questions and I'm looking into a follow up.
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