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.

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 that China… 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
Public Education
Kansas family sues after ‘healthy’ student hit with three-week home confinement for alleged chicken pox exposure

A Kansas honors student’s family took local health officials to court Friday after they confined her to home for 21 days for reportedly being exposed to chicken pox. Parents of… Read More

February 28, 2025
Courts
Midwest mom monitoring sex-related materials in schools banned from district property, sues

A suburban Kansas City mother who’s doggedly monitored sexually inappropriate materials in her public schools is now suing the district for banning her from school property last week. After previously… Read More

February 18, 2025