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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.

Kansas City
Kansas City mayor’s indifference to dangers of all-gender bathrooms draws firestorm of ridicule

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has drawn national scorn this week for his view that the city’s airport doesn’t need gender-specific bathrooms – even after up to 66 women… Read More

March 26, 2026
Sex Change
Where child sex-change social contagion was birthed, nursed – and the rising rejection of it

(The Heartlander) — As public support for sex changes on minors craters, one has to wonder: How did we ever get to the point where it’s socially and medically… Read More

March 24, 2026
Kansas
Kansas school choice credits may be doomed if House can’t override likely governor’s veto

Kentucky lawmakers have made federal school choice tax credits available to their residents, with this week’s override of their Democrat governor’s veto of the bill.Kansas lawmakers appear… Read More

March 20, 2026
Kansas
Cell phone ban to become Kansas law, as other states already see benefits in learning

Ty Masterson has already heard it from a relative in another state: Kansas’ new law banning cell phone use in school will get students’ attention. Literally. The… Read More

March 20, 2026
Elections
Leftist nonprofit hires noncitizen for get-out-the-vote effort in Kansas

A voter engagement nonprofit with far-left funding inexplicably hired a foreign citizen to work on getting the vote out in Kansas, a local watchdog is reporting. The Voter… Read More

March 17, 2026