Local Opinion

September is National Suicide Prevention Month and National Suicide Prevention Week begins Sunday, September 10 and ends Saturday, September 16. The problem, however, exists throughout the entire year, every year, without us growing any closer to finding a way to prevent these tragedies.

To the Editor:

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Immigration may be a difficult problem but that does not preclude a solution — that is, assuming there is the political will to affect such a solution.

Special note to readers: In this week’s column is an unfamiliar word. A respected friend, who is a good and successful writer, advised me to avoid such words as they may discourage readers from continuing to read. Stubborn as I am, I will not do that, however wise it may be.

This is a sad tale but with a happy ending. It is also a fairy tale subsumed in the gothic horror novel that is our immigration mess.

Presidents have long struggled with family members casting a dark shadow over their presidencies:

(Columbus) The Republic

The first time I heard the phrase “Winning by losing” was a couple of weeks ago. A Republican county commissioner enlightened me with a conspiratorial wink. Our group had just lost a vote to freeze seniors’ property taxes. The “winker” had introduced our bill to the county council.

Come with me now to those exciting days of yesteryear, in 2012, when the average weekly wage in the United States was $1,000. It was thrilling as we emerged slowly from the financial bubble of 2008.