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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.

Free Speech, Opinion
Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling protecting a Christian web designer from government-imposed speech is crucial – but also alarming

Once again the U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a landmark First Amendment ruling, protecting a Christian web designer from being forced to create sites that violate her religious… Read More

June 30, 2023
Courts
Supreme Court: Government can’t compel Christian web designer to create sites that violate her faith

In a landmark case for First Amendment rights, the U.S. Supreme Court Friday ruled a Christian website designer cannot be forced by government to create sites for same-sex weddings that… Read More

June 30, 2023
China
Missouri attorney general probes China ‘service center’ in St. Louis after FBI raid on illegal Chinese ‘police station’ in New York

The Missouri attorney general is investigating the actions of an alleged Chinese Communist Party-linked “service center” in St. Louis, The Daily Caller reports. Read More

June 29, 2023
Springfield
Watchdog appalled after videoing children tipping drag queens at Springfield’s Ozarks Pridefest, challenges elected leaders’ support of it

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A “Pridefest” here featured young children actually tipping dancing drag queens a la a strip club – and even one youth performing in drag who… Read More

June 27, 2023
America, Opinion
How about ‘American Pride Month’ in July? It’d be a great discussion starter, and your beleaguered country sorely needs the love

I suddenly stopped eating to scan the dining room. I saw seemingly every make and model of human being enjoying Kansas City barbecue and each other – many in racially… Read More

June 26, 2023