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 City-area public library hosting ‘celebration of trans stories’ for children

Although the tide has turned decidedly against sex changes for minors nationally, a library in suburban Kansas City is hosting “A Celebration of Trans Stories” for kids later this month. Read More

February 17, 2025
Courts
Kansas City, Jackson County face lawsuit over laws forcing counselors to self-censor on transgender ideology

Kansas City and Jackson County are now being sued for ordinances forcing “transgender ideology” on licensed counselors, and making it illegal for them to differ from the governments’ views on… Read More

February 11, 2025
Government
Democrats, media, risk the republic in defending orgy of federal spending unearthed by DOGE, Missouri Sens. Schmitt, Hawley warn

The left has made the federal government its “personal piggy bank,” and that’s why Democrats and their bought-and-paid-for media are squealing like stuck pigs at DOGE’s exposure of it. That’s… Read More

February 7, 2025
Government
Biden failed to release COVID origins intelligence as required by law nearly 2 years ago; Trump starts process in first week

President Joe Biden was required in 2023, by a law he signed himself, to release what the federal government knows about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic that killed 1.2… Read More

January 27, 2025
Opinion
Americans must forget everything they’ve been told about Jan. 6 by government, media, hear directly from those who were there

A friend of a friend sat across the table from Leslie Gray and said she and all those like her should’ve been shot in the head. The 59-year-old Floridian readily… Read More

January 23, 2025