With two school attacks resulting in fatalities on consecutive days and a third incident intercepted this past week, it's time we start doing more than just talking again.
However, instead of talking about how we must protect our schools from mad men, this time the conversation must focus on mad school children.
For the unabridged version of this story, subscribe to The Daily Journal's print edition or E-edition
Be careful what you wish for is one of those lifelong warnings we tend to take for granted. We still do it and often times regret it when we get what we wished for.
Not too long ago Placed Rated Almanac, a publication unfamiliar to me, named our community the 354th worst place to live in all of America.
Being a lot younger then, it really got under my skin. Friends from around the country contacted me wanting to know if this was the place I bragged about. We were the national stickpin cushion for a while and we still have gazebos as a reminder. Yet, we kept right on living and headed into the economic downturn just like the rest of the country.
Like a child, I remember wishing we could be named No. 1 for something. My wish has been granted. Well, sort of. In a list compiled by CBSNews.
