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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.

2024 election
Olathe’s Tony Bergida running to return Johnson County Commission to basics of public service

Johnson County, Kansas, leaders have lost their focus on what’s important, says an Olathe planning commissioner who wants to broaden his impact by joining the county commission this year. Read More

January 9, 2024
Crime, Missouri
Missouri secretary of state confronted by police outside his home in terrifying ‘swatting’ hoax report of murder at his address

The caller from an unknown number Sunday night was polite but firm: Jay Ashcroft was asked where he was, if everyone was safe, and to come out of his… Read More

January 8, 2024
Free Speech
U.S. Supreme Court must now free this government’s dissenters from the stocks of social media censorship and the dark return of ‘seditious libel’

It was actually a crime to criticize the royal government in colonial America. Untold thousands were fined, imprisoned and shamed for the impertinence, not incidentally silencing many thousands more. Read More

January 5, 2024
Missouri, Social Media
‘War for soul of America’ has three fronts, says Missouri attorney general – who has helped make the state Ground Zero on this one

Just as the 2024 presidential election cycle begins in earnest, Missouri has become Ground Zero in this country’s centuries-long fight for freedom of speech. Even as he fights… Read More

January 2, 2024
Missouri, Politics
Missouri House GOP PAC changes leadership after exposé – will it also withdraw its support for Democrat-led court redistricting case?

Missouri’s House Republican Campaign Committee is moving on from its executive director at the end of the month, after a Heartlander look Wednesday into the PAC’s money spent… Read More

December 22, 2023