I ain't picking on the highway department. Broadband would be real joke if the Jeff City boys were in charge.
Take my word that DSL enables CO are in other placed beside around St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Charles, and Springfield. SWB/ASI has done a good job of putting DSLAM equipment into CO. I know of a small rural town 30 miles north of Columbia that while getting phone serve by GTE, ADSL is offered by both SWB and Telocity. Just meet the distance requirement from the CO.