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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
‘His shoelaces are tied’: House Speaker failing to restore aid for today’s victims of U.S. nuclear waste, Hawley says

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is still failing to act even as federal compensation for radiation victims expired last week, says Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. Read More

June 13, 2024
Abortion, Missouri
‘We never tell parents’: Video allegedly showing Missouri’s Planned Parenthood trafficking minors for out-of-state abortions leads to day in court

Missouri’s Planned Parenthood has a First Amendment right to help arrange out-of-state abortions for minors without the knowledge of parents, its attorneys reportedly argued in court this week. “FACT CHECK:… Read More

June 12, 2024
Missouri
‘Borrower beware’? That appears to be the policy for age-inappropriate books for children at this Kansas City-area library

The Missouri secretary of state last year enacted a rule requiring libraries to “adopt written policies determining what material is age-appropriate.” But at least one Kansas City-area library seems… Read More

June 11, 2024
Josh Hawley
Biden border order ‘total joke,’ Fauci belongs ‘behind bars,’ Missouri Senator Josh Hawley argues

Biden’s executive order on the border is “a total joke,” and Dr. Anthony Fauci “ought to be in jail,” Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley says in an exclusive interview… Read More

June 6, 2024
Eric Schmitt
Eighty years after D-Day, fight for freedom in America – and for its border – is still on

Even as Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt traveled to Normandy Wednesday for D-Day’s 80th anniversary, a federal contractor in the U.S. claimed the U.S. flag is a “hate symbol.”… Read More

June 5, 2024