Commentary: We can’t ‘solve’ Utah’s teen suicide problem. We can only work on it.

Alisa Ellis, vice chairwoman of the Utah State Board of Education, voted recently with the rest of the board to fund a $1.8 million pilot program to make counseling and education available as part of a program to combat the tragic problem of teen suicide. At the same time, she revealed a personal dilemma: She believed that the project was likely to fail.As reported in a May 6 column by George Pyle, she identified two reasons for the projected failure. First, God was not going to be involved. &ld