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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.

Kansas, Race
Did Johnson County cancel an employee race training session to stop a commissioner from videoing it for the public to see?

Charlotte O’Hara can empathize with a Kansas City-area teacher’s frustrations with “woke” training of public employees on matters of race. O’Hara,… Read More

May 2, 2023
DEI, Education
Sources: Teacher isn’t lying in her op-ed that ‘white-shaming’ DEI curriculum in Kansas City-area schools is brewing ‘a toxic environment’

Parents should “pull their kids” from schools that offer “destructive” racial equity curricula that portray whites as privileged oppressors, multiple sources in a Kansas City-area district say. This comes after… Read More

May 1, 2023
Education, Missouri State University
Watchdog renews call for probe of no-white-males-allowed program at Missouri State University after president claims no wrongdoing

A civil rights organization has renewed its request for an investigation of Missouri State University and its no-white-males-allowed business boot camp, after the… Read More

April 28, 2023
Biden administration
Biden administration is indeed involved in a ‘sophisticated network’ of immigrant child smuggling, for which jail time is warranted, Hawley says

The Biden administration is in fact the “middleman” in a child smuggling operation at the U.S border, for which someone needs to go to jail, says Sen. Josh… Read More

April 27, 2023
Elections, Missouri
Massive left-wing ‘election-industrial complex’ infiltrating local election offices, including in Missouri, after pivotal involvement in 2020

The left has a “staggering infrastructure” of hundreds of millions of dollars, a hundred or more groups and even whole think tanks devoted to tipping elections its way – and… Read More

April 24, 2023