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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.

Missouri Legislature
Missouri Supreme Court upholds state Senate district maps that a House Republican PAC had strangely opposed

New Missouri Senate districts were handily approved by the state Supreme Court Wednesday, even after a bizarre legal challenge to them by the former director of the House… Read More

February 15, 2024
Josh Hawley
End of the republic? Allowing states to ban disfavored presidential candidates from the ballot would be just that, Sen. Josh Hawley argues

It would signal nothing less than the end of the American republic if the U.S. Supreme Court allows Colorado and other states to keep an unfavored presidential candidate… Read More

February 9, 2024
Border
Washington, D.C.’s ‘dirty little secret’: Biden never wanted border security, which is why the ‘open border’ bill died, Missouri’s two senators say

Missouri’s two U.S. senators say they didn’t need former President Donald Trump to tell them the border bill that was shot down before launch this week was a… Read More

February 8, 2024
Josh Hawley
Oscars spotlight on atomic bomb film ‘Oppenheimer’ should also shine light on continuing victims of radiation, Hawley argues

With Oppenheimer expected to win big at the Oscars next month, a celebration of the stunning film about the man who led the development… Read More

February 5, 2024
Kansas City
No boiling seas here: Newest Clay County election director reports bipartisan camaraderie, confidence in local election integrity

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes. The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice. Dogs and… Read More

February 2, 2024