Our schools may be low-ranking, but our suicide rate is one of the highest....

...and other dubious distinctions.

According to this week's Tucson Weekly, the Tucson metro area has the 3RD highest suicide rate of any metro area in the nation!! Isn't that awful? The article is about why no one really talks about it or does anything about that fact. As they point out, if two Arizonans were dying everyday from West Nile, it would be major news. But an average of two Arizonans die from suicide everyday, and no one seems to know.