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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.

State Government
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has to sue to obtain public records? What chance do ordinary citizens have?

The attorney general of the Show-Me State can’t get the Missouri School Boards’ Association to show him open records. That’s the assertion in a lawsuit filed… Read More

March 17, 2022
Opinion
Op-Ed: Unmonitored drop boxes, other questions continue to cloud election integrity – even in Johnson County, Kansas

Most of the media want you to believe that lingering questions about election integrity are the stuff of lies, kooks and fringe conspiracy theories. As ESPN’s… Read More

March 16, 2022
State Government
What’s your emergency? For St. Louis, it’s a crisis-level lack of 911 dispatchers. Did anti-police sentiment exacerbate the problem?

When the city of St. Louis took over its police department from the state in 2013, it immediately cut the number of 911 dispatchers. Now, it’s absolutely desperate… Read More

March 14, 2022
National
Hawley clearly skeptical of Biden’s Supreme Court nominee and her advocacy for terrorists

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has deep concerns about President Joe Biden’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly her full-throated advocacy as a defense lawyer for terrorists in… Read More

March 11, 2022
Government
Opponents of school choice in Georgia Senate exercise it in their own families

Georgia lawmaker Jodi Lott has a quick and easy answer for why she supports school choice. “Because it already exists,” the Republican state representative told The Heartlander. “School choice exists… Read More

March 10, 2022