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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.

National
Hawley: Gmail and Biden’s ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ try to chill GOP, conservative speech this election

Gmail is already using “loaded dice” to favor Democrat candidates, he says. And now the Biden administration is creating an election-year “Disinformation Governance Board,” which Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley… Read More

April 28, 2022
State Government
Wyandotte County cyber attack went on for three days before being reported; officials not ‘laying out’ seriousness of it

A devastating ransom attack on Wyandotte County databases went undetected for two days, then unreported for a third, according to two new sources speaking confidentially to The Heartlander. Read More

April 28, 2022
State Government
In months before cyber attack, Wyandotte County failed to fill an open cyber security analyst job

Months before a damaging ransom attack on Wyandotte County databases, the city-county government had approved a new position of cyber security analyst – but it was never filled due… Read More

April 25, 2022
State Government
Sources: Hack of Wyandotte County data was a ransom attack, perhaps by Russian operatives

The hack of Wyandotte County data bases last week was actually a ransom attack, perhaps by Russian operatives, and county officials are severely downplaying the extent of the damage,… Read More

April 24, 2022
State Government
Recreational marijuana in Missouri? ‘Run!’ say experts who warn of the dire social consequences

He’d confiscated both a shotgun and a rifle from his friend on separate occasions, and once may have prevented the friend from shooting a utility worker while in a… Read More

April 22, 2022