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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.

Politics
Kansas county commissioners embrace child drag show, tampons for men’s rooms, colleague alleges

A Johnson County, Kansas, commissioner is blasting her colleagues for supporting an all-ages drag queen show with a coloring contest for kids earlier this year, and for abiding men’s-room… Read More

October 29, 2024
Crime, Kansas City
Jackson County prosecutor candidate Tracey Chappell knows all about Kansas City’s crime problem. She hears it from the accused themselves

As a defense attorney, Tracey Chappell hears her clients in surrounding counties actually lament they hadn’t been arrested in Jackson County instead – where the prosecutors are notoriously soft… Read More

October 28, 2024
Gender Transition
Puberty blocker findings hidden by researcher over fear they don’t support use by kids

A scientific researcher stunningly admits having shelved research that debunks mental health improvements for gender-dysphoric kids taking puberty blockers – apparently because she was afraid what the world might… Read More

October 25, 2024
2024 election
Prominent Democrat’s common-sense reasons for supporting Trump could be roadmap to common ground

Consider it the “Common Sense/Common Ground Manifesto.”Longtime Democrat hedge fund manager and philanthropist Bill Ackman recently explained, in a 33-point post on X, why he’s breaking precedent… Read More

October 22, 2024
Kansas City
‘Take Back JoCo’ grassroots movement implores Nov. 5 voters to rein in Johnson County spending, imperiousness

Frustrated by what they say are big-spending, out-of-touch Johnson County, Kansas, leaders, and unable to rely on local news media to hold them accountable, an ad hoc group of… Read More

October 21, 2024