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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 City, School Shootings
Mass shooting threat closes summer schools in Kansas City area Wednesday; suspect’s arrest means classes back on

Multiple Kansas City-area school districts canceled summer classes and activities indefinitely Wednesday after word Tuesday of a mass shooting threat in the suburb of Blue Springs. Read More

June 15, 2022
Kansas, Uncategorized
‘In God We Trust’ is added to school buildings in this legendary Kansas town to boost patriotism, morality

God is back in Dodge City schools – at least on the walls. The legendary western Kansas town’s Board of Education voted 5-2 Monday to place… Read More

June 15, 2022
National
Hawley: Biden’s disinformation board frightening, Congress’ prime-time hearing on Jan. 6 ‘a joke’

The Biden administration’s aborted Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) was far more nefarious than first thought, say internal documents indicating the board secretly intended to monitor and perhaps censor… Read More

June 9, 2022
National, State Government
Former Kansas woman with desire to attack the U.S. pleads guilty to being leader of an all-female ISIS terrorist unit

A former Kansas woman accused of training an all-female battalion of ISIS terrorists in Syria faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, pleaded… Read More

June 8, 2022
National, State Government
Extent of far-left race and sex curricula in schools, and solutions, to be discussed by national panel at free public event in KC Monday

Frighteningly fringe curriculum on race and sexuality is much more widespread across America – and much less coincidental – than many parents realize, close observers say.  “These aren’t isolated incidents,”… Read More

June 8, 2022