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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.

Josh Hawley
Hawley joins victims in plaintive call for House to compensate those still sickened by WWII-era radiation

Radioactive clouds from America’s WWII-era nuclear bomb testing covered untold Idahoans downwind. But federal compensation for the resulting sickness and death never has. Likewise, radiation victims across the country, including… Read More

November 21, 2024
Crime
County’s jail bookings reveal hidden immigrant crime wave in Kansas City area

Jesus Aguilar-Santos appears to have been in Wyandotte County, Kansas’ custody six times over 11 years. Yet, it was apparently only after the Mexican national allegedly hit and killed… Read More

November 17, 2024
2024 election
X factor: The one word that captures what happened in the 2024 presidential election

With the tragic post-election murder of four and subsequent suicide of a deranged Trump opponent in Minnesota, the media appear to have crossed… Read More

November 11, 2024
Culture
Media openly fear ‘Trump’s America’ where it’s OK – gasp! – to show devotion to God, country

The New York Times Wednesday blared – more like feared – Donald Trump’s second election as president, cryptically declaring in a “Trump’s America” headline that his “Victory Changes Nation’s Sense… Read More

November 7, 2024
Education
Kansas City teacher’s rights violated by forced trans pronoun use, ‘white shaming’ curriculum, lawsuit alleges

A Kansas City teacher who says she was punished for refusing to go along with the district’s anti-white racial and pro-trans gender indoctrination is suing her district for… Read More

November 6, 2024