There's a Tour of Missouri Press Conference we'll be covering today, but these guys claim to already know the inside skinny.
P.M.: These guys were dead on. A start in St. Joseph plus an extra day of racing. The accounting folks crunched the numbers for last year's race and figured the event had a 26.2 million dollar economic impact. In a good way.
The complete list of host cities and stage description here at the Official TOM site.