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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.

Eric Schmitt
NPR, PBS made the case for their own defunding, Schmitt argues

Eric Schmitt made a devastating case for defunding NPR and PBS while leading Senate passage of the $9 billion “rescissions” spending cut bill this past week. But… Read More

July 20, 2025
Culture
Here’s all the nauseatingly sexual books the left wants military kids reading

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A U.S. district court released a comprehensive list on July 11 of every book banned from use in Pentagon-run schools, which includes a slew… Read More

July 17, 2025
Eric Schmitt
‘Not a tax farm for global leftism’: Schmitt leads charge for spending cut package with speech eviscerating leftist kleptocracy

It’s unclear whether Republicans have made an air-tight case for defunding NPR and PBS and all the other spending cuts in the modest$9 billion rescission package the Senate… Read More

July 17, 2025
Josh Hawley
After legislative victory, Hawley leans on feds to move quickly in compensating WWII-era nuclear radiation victims

Plaintive congressional visits and emotional press conferences have turned to bittersweet victory celebrations for today’s long-neglected victims of WWII-era nuclear radiation in Missouri and beyond. Missouri Sen. Josh… Read More

July 17, 2025
Josh Hawley
‘Give me a break’: Hawley wants facts on Epstein case, suggests outside probe may be warranted

If the Deep State is somehow persuading the Trump administration into not releasing the Epstein files, then perhaps an outside investigation is needed. That’s the view of Missouri… Read More

July 16, 2025