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, Public Education
Citizen concerned over lewd books in this Missouri school district was immediately shown the door by his school board. But he’s not going anywhere

A citizen distressed about lewd books in school libraries was immediately gaveled down during public comments to the Lee’s Summit, Missouri school board, and was promptly… Read More

January 24, 2023
Culture
Inaugural ‘Stolen Innocence’ panel aims to help parents guard their children against increasing sexualization in schools

Alexandra Schweitzer had turned the children’s book she was inspecting sideways, like a curious youth trying to better see a Playboy centerfold. Her husband wondered what… Read More

January 23, 2023
Culture
‘Religion is poison,’ ‘Death to Christmas’: Kansas City Council candidate Chris Gahagan and his virulently anti-religion tweets

(The Heartlander) – A candidate for Kansas City Council has a bizarre record of acid-tipped tweets about religion and religious people, writing in one that, “If you have a religion,… Read More

January 13, 2023
Public Education
Graduate wages lonely battle against anti-religious, erotic book for 9th-graders in her Kansas City-area school district

Ninth graders in a Kansas City-area school district have been subjected to a book with bawdy anti-religious and erotic passages, its school board was told by a disgusted and disappointed… Read More

January 13, 2023
Culture, Opinion
Children as young as 6 attend erotic ‘Christmas’ drag queen show in Kansas City, guarded by police and Antifa

Imagine if exotic dancers left their strip clubs to stage a vulgar, sexually suggestive public performance at a local theater – for “all ages,” no less. Now imagine some adults… Read More

December 22, 2022