Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is Executive Editor of The Lion. A Kansas City native, he’s been an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas.

Culture
Kansas church vandalism, satanic ‘black mass’ draw national outrage, including president’s

The president himself has taken notice of a vandalized church in Wichita, while Satanists plan a “black mass” on the Kansas Capitol grounds Friday. The burglary and destruction at St. Read More

March 18, 2025
Public Education
Some Missouri universities want more freedom in offering degrees. Should that apply to community colleges too?

With Missouri lawmakers looking at allowing more public universities to offer advanced degrees, one might wonder: Why not allow community colleges to offer more four-year degrees? Community colleges are… Read More

March 14, 2025
Courts
‘Show Me The Money State’ Missouri wins $24 billion from China in landmark COVID lawsuit

China owes Missouri $24 billion in damages for “causing and exacerbating” the COVID-19 pandemic, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh late Friday ruled specifically… Read More

March 11, 2025
Public Education
Kansas school board rejects plan to comply with Trump DEI executive order

A Kansas school board Monday rejected a resolution to ensure compliance with President Trump’s executive order banning DEI in federally funded schools – after legal guidance from a state association… Read More

March 11, 2025
Culture
Trump’s ‘perfect the way God made you’ remark a dagger in heart of radical gender ideology, Hawley argues

President Trump’s message Tuesday “to every child in America … that you are perfect exactly the way God made you” was “perhaps the most important line of the night,”… Read More

March 6, 2025