‘When Sara Pezzella has a stomach ache, she feels yellow, not green. The color has nothing to do with nausea. Pezzella is a synesthete: she often perceives pain and emotion as color. “Being a synesthete helps me look at things a little differently and work with colors a little differently,” the senior art...
Six years ago today, my family and I hauled 22 50-pound cardboard boxes into the Detroit airport and moved to Shanghai, the largest city in the People’s Republic of China. My time living in a communist country showed me just how fortunate the American people are to endure elections like the one we just finished,...
Republican incumbent Eric Leutheuser will represent District 58 in the Michigan House of Representatives for a second time after defeating Democratic candidate Mary Hamaty in the election on Tuesday, Nov. 8. “It was a quiet campaign. I ran on my record and what I hope to do,” Leutheuser said. “It’s a very Republican district. I’m...
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton made an emotional case for late-term abortion in the last presidential debate: “I have met with women who have, toward the end of their pregnancy, gotten the worst news one could get. That their health is in jeopardy if they continue to carry to term. Or that something terrible has happened...
When Republican Rep. Eric Leutheuser talks political philosophy, he uses a trinity of institutions as his guiding principles in Michigan’s House of Representatives. “Family, church, and local community support American civil life when they are successful,” Leutheuser said. “When those institutions are under attack, our society wobbles. Local communities are weakened all the time when...