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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.

Government
Are they being asked to sign away their parental rights? Arizonans cautioned not to sign anti-school-choice petition

Arizonans are now being asked to give up their parental rights.  That’s the way school choice advocate Corey A. DeAngelis sees it, anyway. Since Arizona lawmakers passed the most sweeping… Read More

August 18, 2022
Christian Schools, Government
A new educational frontier opens wide with coming of Arizona’s universal school choice law. What’s it mean for Christian educators?

Arizona may soon be the site of the Oklahoma Land Rush of school choice, as a new law allows all parents in the state to take their kids’ share… Read More

August 15, 2022
Local News
School board turns tail, votes to permit satanic clothing a week after banning it

A school board that only a week ago chose to prohibit satanic clothing in schools voted Friday to do the opposite and permit… Read More

August 12, 2022
2022 election
With just an apartment in KC but a multimillion-dollar home in Virginia, does Senate candidate John Wood even live in Missouri?

U.S. Senate candidate John Wood touts himself as a sixth-generation Missourian. But does he even live in the state anymore? Wood, whose own Missouri Bar license… Read More

August 12, 2022
Education
Kansas school board reconsidering satanic ban in dress code after satanist parent complaint

A Kansas public school district is rethinking its ban on satanic clothing after a parent’s complaints and threats to sue.  The Hays Unified School District 489 Board of Education voted… Read More

August 10, 2022