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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, Politics
Failed Democrat candidate for Missouri House fined for accepting campaign contribution from fake name, fictitious address, then pretends not to know it

A failed Democrat candidate for the state House has been fined $1,000 by the Missouri Ethics Commission for accepting a campaign contribution from a completely fictitious source. Read More

January 12, 2024
2024 election
Olathe’s Tony Bergida running to return Johnson County Commission to basics of public service

Johnson County, Kansas, leaders have lost their focus on what’s important, says an Olathe planning commissioner who wants to broaden his impact by joining the county commission this… Read More

January 9, 2024
Crime, Missouri
Missouri secretary of state confronted by police outside his home in terrifying ‘swatting’ hoax report of murder at his address

The caller from an unknown number Sunday night was polite but firm: Jay Ashcroft was asked where he was, if everyone was safe, and to come out of… Read More

January 8, 2024
Free Speech
U.S. Supreme Court must now free this government’s dissenters from the stocks of social media censorship and the dark return of ‘seditious libel’

It was actually a crime to criticize the royal government in colonial America. Untold thousands were fined, imprisoned and shamed for the impertinence, not incidentally silencing many thousands more. We… Read More

January 5, 2024
Missouri, Social Media
‘War for soul of America’ has three fronts, says Missouri attorney general – who has helped make the state Ground Zero on this one

Just as the 2024 presidential election cycle begins in earnest, Missouri has become Ground Zero in this country’s centuries-long fight for freedom of speech. Even as… Read More

January 2, 2024