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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.

Culture, Parenting
Liberal organization calling parents’ rights groups ‘extremist’ is, itself, a ‘hate group’ and ‘a joke,’ 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
DEI
Source of Missouri State University’s opposition to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reforms by the legislature difficult to pinpoint

Missouri State University opposed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion reforms in the recent legislative session – but without much, if any, public notice or debate about it. The university… Read More

June 7, 2023
Missouri State University
Watchdog files federal complaint to investigate and sanction Missouri State University for its no-white-males business boot camp

A civil rights watchdog has asked the federal government to investigate and sanction Missouri State University for a no-white-males-allowed seminar it hosted earlier this year. The Equal Protection… Read More

June 6, 2023
Kansas City
KC mayor claims former state auditor ignored city’s concerns over police funding amendment – but once praised her for such independence

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas once championed then-state auditor Nicole Galloway’s independent streak. Now he’s railing against it. Lucas is bizarrely suing the state as a private… Read More

June 2, 2023
Josh Hawley
Missouri workers lose on debt deal, farmers win in Supreme Court case, says Senator Josh Hawley

Missouri workers are getting a raw deal in the debt deal, while the state’s farmers and ranchers won a huge court victory on the right to manage their land. Read More

May 31, 2023