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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.

Josh Hawley
Hawley bill for a compensation fund and ‘some justice’ for radiation victims passes Senate, heads to House

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s bipartisan bill to keep alive the federal government’s radiation exposure compensation fund – and perhaps keep some people alive – handily passed the Senate 69-30… Read More

March 7, 2024
Josh Hawley
‘I was wrong’: What President Biden should say ‘if he wants to be serious’ in his State of the Union address, says Hawley

Josh Hawley will be holding his breath to see if President Joe Biden can stay awake for his State of the Union address Thursday night. But as for… Read More

March 7, 2024
Congress
‘Classic case of projection’: Biden likely to blame GOP for his own failed policies in SOTU speech, Schmitt predicts

President Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday should probably be renamed the Shift of the Blame address in the view of Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt. Schmitt told… Read More

March 7, 2024
Gender, Kansas City
‘An evil agenda’: Kansas City officials’ video reading of children’s gender transition book whips up storm of revulsion

Top Kansas City officials seem to have gone out of their way to choose a children’s gender-transition book to read to kids on a video for National Reading… Read More

March 6, 2024
Josh Hawley
Senate to vote this week on radiation victims fund championed by a dogged Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley

As crickets blare from an apparently disinterested Department of Energy, Sen. Josh Hawley has secured a Senate vote this week to extend and expand a compensation fund for U.S. Read More

March 4, 2024