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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.

Immigration
MSU president gets political at naturalization ceremony, telling new citizens whom to vote for

The president of Missouri State University this week told a group of newly naturalized citizens to vote – but essentially not for people who dislike immigrants. “Unfortunately,… Read More

October 14, 2022
National
GOP senators’ scary Halloween fentanyl video mocked by media, but is ‘absolutely necessary,’ Missouri senator argues

The “deadliest drug our nation has ever seen” may be dressed up as Halloween candy this year, warn 13 Republican U.S. senators in a public service announcement.Kansas… Read More

October 11, 2022
Education
This state’s public education achievement crisis, and needed solutions, are documented in a new call-to-action book

With one in three students testing below grade level in reading and math, Kansas public education is embroiled in a chronic achievement crisis – one the system only perpetuates… Read More

October 10, 2022
Crime
Poll workers in Johnson County, Kansas may be among those whose personal information was shared with a server in China

More than 6,000 past and present election poll workers in suburban Kansas City’s Johnson County have been alerted that their personal information may have been stolen and shared on… Read More

October 6, 2022
Courts, Culture, Public Education
Georgia substitute teacher allegedly fired for raising questions as a mom about age-inappropriate book being read to elementary students

A Georgia substitute teacher is suing after being fired for raising questions about depictions of same-sex couples in a picture book included in a library read-aloud to elementary school… Read More

October 5, 2022