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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
‘Pedophilia took a win’ in Wisconsin school board approval Monday of gender-bending sex ed lessons as young as kindergarten, activist says

A Wisconsin school board Monday approved a sex education curriculum that expects kindergartners to begin exploring gender issues and to know such terms as penis, vulva and anus. Read More

August 23, 2022
2022 election
Independent Senate candidate John Wood’s financial links to Missouri appear just as tenuous as his residential ties

Missouri U.S. Senate independent candidate John Wood has more residential ties to Virginia than the Show-Me State, as The Heartlander has reported. And the same is apparently true… Read More

August 22, 2022
Investigations
Wyandotte County DA, who vows ‘independent’ probes into alleged police misconduct, chose to investigate his own department

Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree has made a huge point of investigating police for alleged misconduct. But a new lawsuit claims he wanted to keep… Read More

August 19, 2022
Courts
KC mayor hires advocate for ‘unrepentant cop killer’ to sue state over required funding of police

A lawyer currently helping Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas sue Missouri over police funding is a former advocate for a high-profile cop killer. Indeed, New… Read More

August 18, 2022
Government
Are they being asked to sign away their parental rights? Arizonans cautioned not to sign anti-school-choice petition

Arizonans are now being asked to give up their parental rights. That’s the way school choice advocate Corey A. DeAngelis sees it, anyway. Since Arizona lawmakers passed the most… Read More

August 18, 2022