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Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas. He was executive editor of Heartlander News from 2022 to 2026.

Public Education
Missouri school board likely to add sexual orientation, gender identity to non-discrimination policy, bending to federal pressure

Would the Biden administration stop feeding Springfield students if the school board doesn’t bend to its will on gender identity policies? That’s the central question behind Tuesday night’s… Read More

October 24, 2023
Gender, Springfield
Springfield school board likely to add sexual orientation, gender identity to non-discrimination policy, bending to federal pressure

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Would the Biden administration stop feeding Springfield students if the school board doesn’t bend to its will on gender identity policies? That’s the central question… Read More

October 24, 2023
Culture
Senator, congressman want scrutiny for pro-Hamas student groups, complacent universities

As would-be terrorists cross America’s porous border, college students support the Hamas terror attack, and the federal government employs a virulent opponent of Israel, the U.S. Senate can’t even… Read More

October 20, 2023
Josh Hawley
Hawley: Even in wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel, Biden is keeping border open, retaining vitriolic anti-Israel DHS employee

As would-be terrorists cross America’s porous border, college students support the Hamas terror attack, and the federal government employs a virulent opponent of Israel, the U.S. Senate can’t even… Read More

October 20, 2023
Missouri Legislature
Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher seeking lieutenant governor job. Here’s what he’d do and why you should care

Dean Plocher wants to keep working to “protect our farmland from China, our classrooms from liberal indoctrination, our families from Biden’s failed economy and our communities from the progressive… Read More

October 12, 2023