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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.

Health, Missouri
‘Dazed and confused’: Physical therapy providers warn of cost, access, as Missouri fails to enforce law against doctor-owned clinic referrals

It’s supposed to be illegal in Missouri for doctors to refer patients to their own physical therapy clinics. But it appears no one is enforcing the… Read More

April 25, 2024
Josh Hawley
After Democrat ‘100% cover-up’ of border crisis by dismissing impeachment, Mayorkas can’t escape Hawley’s wrath

The Homeland Security secretary may have escaped an impeachment trial this week, but he couldn’t dodge the trial by fire of facing a furious Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. Alejandro… Read More

April 19, 2024
Eric Schmitt
‘Insult to Americans’: Senate majority ‘nuked’ Constitution’s impeachment process in holding no trial for Mayorkas, Schmitt argues

Democrats “diminished the institution of the Senate today and set ablaze the Constitution,” Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt said in a statement Wednesday after the chamber’s majority summarily dismissed… Read More

April 18, 2024
Education, Missouri
21 F-bombs: New audio reveals extent of hostility, profanity, in St. Joseph, Missouri school board member’s attacks on colleagues

New audio for the first time exposes the naked ferocity of a profanity-laced verbal assault by a St. Joseph, Missouri school board member on a colleague, for which… Read More

April 17, 2024
Free Speech
Brazilian judge’s censorship orders aimed at Elon Musk a ‘wake-up call’ for similar free speech fight in U.S., Hawley argues

As Elon Musk fights a lonely battle against government censorship in Brazil, there’s little the U.S. Congress can do – except take note of the parallel dangers to… Read More

April 12, 2024