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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.

President Donald Trump
Trump pledges school choice for all, dishes on Title IX, illegal immigrant crime and more in exclusive Lion interview

(The Heartlander) — School choice is coming nationwide if he’s elected, former President Donald Trump told Lion Week in Review  podcast host Chris Stigall in an exclusive one-on-one interview in… Read More

June 24, 2024
Opinion
America is on a lightning march toward authoritarianism; media, much of electorate, seem fine with that

There are dark forces inside this country and within the federal government that are more sinister than any in our nation’s history. But what’s truly amazing… Read More

June 20, 2024
Kansas City
‘Border war’ back with a vengeance, as Kansas moves to lure Chiefs, Royals across Missouri line

The Missouri-Kansas border war is back on, maybe bigger than ever, with the Kansas Legislature’s decision Tuesday to offer tax incentives to lure the Kansas City Chiefs and… Read More

June 19, 2024
COVID-19
Fauci ‘and his minions’ still lying about likelihood COVID came from Wuhan lab, fiery Hawley argues

Four years after the COVID-19 outbreak, and a year after a deadline for the federal government to come clean on what it knows, we still know precious little… Read More

June 18, 2024
Energy, Missouri
Feds planning mammoth electric line corridor through Kansas, Missouri, Illinois; are residents informed enough to oppose it?

The Biden administration is taking public comments on a proposed five-mile-wide electric transmission corridor crossing half of Kansas and all of Missouri – but do residents even have… Read More

June 14, 2024