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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.

Opinion
Arctic Frost v. Watergate: One is the scariest scandal in US history, the other has a ‘gate’ on the end of it

Arctic Frost may not be the biggest scandal in American history – not when the government was used to frame a presidential candidate as a Kremlin ally, or when a… Read More

November 4, 2025
Kansas City
‘Harassment’ unabated at Missouri school for student heading Turning Point USA chapter, family says

A Missouri high school student reports a debilitating “persistent pattern of harassment” and hostility toward him – including a cryptic late-night email from a teacher – that has yet to… Read More

October 27, 2025
Eric Schmitt
‘Humorless scolds’: Unpopular, out-of-power American left reduced to riots, ballroom bashing, Schmitt argues

Stripped from power due to its rank unpopularity with the American people, all the left has left is street violence and “pearl clutching” over a White House ballroom, Missouri Sen. Read More

October 23, 2025
Josh Hawley
Democrats losing their minds over Trump ballroom while shutdown ‘starves’ hungry Americans, farmers, Hawley notes

Previous U.S. presidents have built White House movie, music and game rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and outdoor putting greens and basketball courts. So Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley… Read More

October 22, 2025
Kansas City
DA wants Wyandotte County’s jurors, but not its judges, in case of white jailer accused in black inmate’s death

Wyandotte County’s top prosecutor is banking on local jurors to convict a white jailer in this summer’s accidental death of a black inmate – but doesn’t trust the… Read More

October 22, 2025