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Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is Executive Editor of The Heartlander. A Kansas City native, he’s been an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas.

Law Enforcement
St. Louis Rep. Cori Bush tops half a million in private security funding while clinging to defunding police that protect the public

It’s difficult to imagine many prominent public figures don’t receive threats in today’s weird, wired world. But U.S. Rep. Cori Bush seems to have set up her own… Read More

July 24, 2023
Public Education
Education expert Corey DeAngelis warns the nation’s ‘rising tide of mediocrity’ in public education has become a tsunami, in live interview at Herzog

The danger to our children and our country from a failing education system has only mushroomed through the years, a new book urgently warns. Indeed, four decades after our… Read More

July 22, 2023
President Biden
President Biden ‘looks like a criminal’ in House whistleblower testimony over his family’s foreign influence peddling, Hawley says

Whistleblower testimony on his family’s payoffs from foreign actors has President Joe Biden – and perhaps even the Department of Justice – looking “like a criminal,” says Missouri… Read More

July 20, 2023
Josh Hawley
Hawley urging action on St. Louis area’s historic radioactive contamination, seeks Senate hearings and victims fund

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is going nuclear. Arguing that radioactive contamination in the St. Louis area from the WWII-era Manhattan Project “may prove to be among… Read More

July 20, 2023
Abortion, Kansas
‘Unlimited abortions’: Kansas sees record increase in abortions, as it deregulates while other states up regulations post-Roe

Kansas is becoming the abortion hub of the Midwest, with a record increase in the state’s aborted babies in 2022. And with 69% of those abortions… Read More

July 18, 2023