How did Wal-Mart get so large? Did Sam Walton round up $200 billion and buy 4,000 stores for the*****of it? NO! He built Wal-Mart customer by customer, store by store. Even until the early 1980's, Wal-Mart was not large.

You are obviously a liberal. It is so blatant because you do not believe in a free market and you wish to punish success. If Wal-Mart was truly the monster you claim they are, they would make no effort to pass on savings to consumers. In fact, for every 10 cents Wal-Mart saves, 6 cents go to the consumer, 3 cents to the vendor and 1 cent to Wal-Mart.

If the local Mom and Pop closed, it is because the customers (YOU) decided to shop elsewhere. Nobody forces you to shop at Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart has never put a single competitor out of business. If you want to know why Wal-Mart is growing while others are dying, it's called progress. If you are upset that your local pharmacy closed, ask yourself why it closed. Did the owner die, retire, sell the property, etc. Did the pharmacy make no effort to adjust to the changing realties of the marketplace?

As I said, unless Wal-Mart sends out a goon squad to round up customers at gunpoint, they cannot be blamed for the demise of Mom and Pop. All of the customers, vendors and employees I've seen at Wal-Mart were there voluntarily.

If you want someone to blame, blame yourself. You and the other 140 million people per week who shop at Wal-Mart are the reason why Wal-Mart is so successful.

Ask Moundsville how much they are willing to pay for the trial run. $100? $500? $1000?

Or, have Moundsville agree to a fee, and then give them some or all of the proceeds from the riders during the trial period.

Without a cost or incentive to Moundsville, it isn't fair to the taxpaying communities.

If Moundsville City Council felt this had merit, they would gladly step up to the plate.

Truth is that not everyone on the board is for this proposal. And why would they? Why would you send service to an area that does not ant the bus and does not want to pay for the bus? This is crazy. If they want the bus they will pay for it, how hard is that to understand?

It's simple, send the bus to those who are paying for it. Kobasko was at a meeting two years ago fighting to stop the buses from going to te Highlands because they don't pay for it. NOW he's on the other side, WHY? Who payed him off? It's funny that he wasn't a member of the board then but now he is!! Something is not right here. Kobasko, explain to us why you are now fighting for something that only two years ago you were protesting??????

The last time I seen a cigarette on a bus was also around the last time I roder a bus to Moundsville on the defunct Co-operative transit Company that we all know as OVRTA now days.

wvforsale: They do and not for what they look like.

But the plain truth is ALL taxpayers have a vested interest in OVRTA.

Since they accept PUBLIC tax dollars, the public has the right to demand bus service.

See what I've been saying about that slippery slope of accepting tax dollars?

It ALWAYS comes back to bite you in the rump!

This is unfair to the people of Wheeling Island, Benwood, and Wheeling Heights.... Not just the people riding the bus, but for the people paying the levys.. What if something happened to my car and I need the bus? Now it doesn't come by as often, but I still pay the same price for it.. This is unfair!!!

That pretty much says it all, huh ?

Sure they are willing to get customers in on a free ride, money in the coffers means tax dollars for them, & at no expense to Moundsville either.

See, this is how politicians are suppossed to get things done as oppssed to Wheeling's way of buying everything and then trying to find potential investors, lol

Way to go MoundTown.