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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.

Biden administration
Missourians shouldn’t be writing checks to pay for ‘billionaire’ bank failures in other states, Sen. Josh Hawley argues

Missourians shouldn’t have to pay for the failure of two banks in California and New York, an animated Sen. Josh Hawley tells The Heartlander. The Biden administration this week announced… Read More

March 17, 2023
Health, Missouri
National watchdog warns Missouri State Medical Association may support woke racial, transgender politics in medical schools

Racial and transgender politics are endangering the practice of medicine, yet the Missouri State Medical Association (MSMA) is considering whether to actually welcome it, warns a national watchdog… Read More

March 16, 2023
Gender Transition, Missouri
Missouri needs to ban transgender treatments for minors, says Senator Josh Hawley, as national group decries the treatments for kids

Missouri lawmakers should go ahead and ban transgender treatments for children, in U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s considered opinion. Hawley’s office last month launched an investigation of… Read More

March 15, 2023
Culture, Education
Elected leaders’ concerns about early-age sexual indoctrination in Leavenworth elementary school is unwelcome, brings call to resign

As a conservative, Pat Proctor never did feel welcome at Leavenworth’s David Brewer Elementary School in Kansas. It’s only gotten worse now. After they blew the… Read More

March 13, 2023
Elections, Missouri
This county in Missouri has joined a left-wing, dark money-linked election organization one watchdog warns could endanger election integrity

Missouri’s Boone County has joined a liberal dark money-linked election organization one watchdog says is aimed at advancing “left-wing voting policies.” Likely unbeknownst to county voters,… Read More

March 10, 2023