Kyle Melinn

Kyle Melinn is the editor and Vice President of the MIRS Newsletter, a daily on-line political news service covering state government and politics.A professional journalist for 20 years who has covered the state Capitol for the last 13, Kyle regularly appears on Off the Record, ‘The Big Show’ with Michael Patrick Shiels and radio shows across the state.  He hosts a weekly podcast called MIRS Monday, available at iTunes.  Before MIRS, Kyle served as a freelance writer for the Boston Herald and as a senior editor for SchoolSports.com.  He has also covered government and politics for the The Daily Citizen, in Dalton, Ga.; The Yuma Daily Sun, in Yuma, Ariz.; and the Towne Courier in East Lansing.  Kyle has won the Associated Press Managing Editors Story of the Year Award in Georgia and in Arizona.  He is a graduate of Michigan State University, who grew up in Byron Center.