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
‘AFTERMATH’: Powerful new exhibit to introduce Kansans to facts, impacts of becoming Midwest mecca for abortion

While surrounding states have worked to reduce the number of abortions since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, they’ve nearly tripled in Kansas since the state’s Supreme Court conceived of… Read More

September 8, 2025
Government
Trump’s ‘proudest achievement’ in productive start to second term may yet be forthcoming, Gorka says

There aren’t many things that leave the learned Sebastian Gorka searching for words. But one of them is trying to predict what President Donald Trump would say is his proudest… Read More

August 29, 2025
Culture
Kansas City Chiefs Coach Andy Reid’s office shot at, missing his desk by just five yards, belated report says

Beloved Kansas City Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid was in his stadium office when a bullet pierced his window early in May 2024, fans learned quite belatedly Wednesday. The 67-year-old… Read More

August 21, 2025
Courts
Illegal immigrant charged in child groping incident over July 4th at Missouri lake

​An alleged illegal immigrant has now been charged with sexually assaulting two young girls in Missouri’s Smithville Lake July 4th. The man, identified as Carlos Climaco-Garcia, 26, reportedly approached… Read More

August 21, 2025
Culture
Socialist failure: KC’s city-funded grocery store closes

Kansas City’s government-funded grocery store, which became an international symbol of officialdom’s incompetence in private-sector business, has closed. Even KC’s liberal public radio station KCUR had to admit KC… Read More

August 15, 2025