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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.

COVID-19
Biden administration has until Saturday to declassify docs on Chinese lab’s connections to COVID-19 outbreak; Hawley sits waiting

The Biden administration is required by law to declassify all federal information on the suspected lab leak of COVID-19 by this weekend. Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is waiting… Read More

June 15, 2023
Kansas City
Northland voters will have two distinct options in the Kansas City Council 1st District election June 20

Northland voters may want to turn out for this one. They have perhaps the starkest choice in the June 20 Kansas City Council election to replace term-limited Heather… Read More

June 14, 2023
Free Speech
‘We should all be frightened’: landmark Missouri lawsuit over Biden’s ‘Orwellian’ censorship has judge’s full attention

A judge’s first crucial ruling is expected any time. But Missouri’s lawsuit fighting back against the Biden administration’s hectoring of Big Tech to censor conservative speech already has “landmark… Read More

June 12, 2023
AI, Congress
Congress must act urgently to protect personal data, kids and elections from growing threat of AI, Hawley warns

Facebook parent Meta may have unleashed the kraken with the apparent leak of its text-generating program “LLaMA,” while even more secure artificial intelligence models have already been used for… Read More

June 9, 2023
Culture
Liberal organization calling parents’ rights groups ‘extremist’ is, itself, a ‘hate group’ and ‘a joke,’ Sens. Hawley, Cruz argue

A far-left organization’s claim that parents’ rights groups are “extremist” is a badge of honor for them from a “joke” entity, says Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. The leftist… Read More

June 8, 2023