The Check-In

Hello, and welcome to The Check-In Podcast! Now available every Wednesday wherever you get your favorite podcasts. It's an opportunity for you to revisit…

With everything else going on, it’s time to go Back to School. Students are arriving on our college campuses, and Columbia Public Schools will also be…

When it comes to the coronavirus, our city, state and country are going the wrong direction. We are living, working, parenting and trying to stay healthy…

This week's Columbia city council meeting showed that Columbia is a microcosm of the rest of the world. Within the first half hour of Monday’s meeting,…

After weeks of re-opening our main streets and venturing out of our isolation, coronavirus cases are rising and things aren’t going the way we’d like. And…

History is not written in stone. The way we view our history and its stories evolves alongside the evolution of our culture and values. Our legacies are…

Since we began the Check-In, we’ve gone from crisis to crisis - a global pandemic sparked off an economic crisis and merged into a movement calling for an…

It’s been about 11 weeks since Boone County issued its initial stay at home orders and many businesses, schools, individuals and families went into…

If you know just a little bit about journalism, you’ve heard the word “objective” thrown around. Journalists should show up, witness, observe and then go…

As hundreds of citizens show up in town squares and streets to call for justice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, many people are asking: How…