WRTA needs to learn to run like a business

WRTA needs to learn
to run like a business

EDITOR:

There have been many negative responses to the Western Reserve Transit Authority putting a sales tax issue on the March ballot.

What the residents of Youngstown don’t understand is that the tax is needed for the transit authority to continue to service Youngstown and surrounding townships.

I would like to give some insight into the WRTA. Some on the board of directors are at fault for not being fully aware of funding problems dating back to 2006. The treasurer informed them, and they just ignored the warnings and kept spending money.

Also, why do we have staff to fix buses when WRTA officials send them out to get fixed? They are defeating the purpose.

There is no need to look into WRTA finances as they have cut back drastically, but maybe it’s just a little too late. Bus routes were not totally reviewed properly; otherwise why would you cut a run that generates over 8,900 riders a month? Who is the director of transportation, and what does he really do?

As you hear these days, it is a time for change and for a new president, Well, it is also time for change at the WRTA. Most of the staff has been there way too long and need to go. The only time I believe that they work is when they have to promote WRTA or hire someone to do it for them because they are scared to do it themselves.

We all, including our representatives, county commissioners and Youngstown’s mayor, need to pull the wool off their eyes and see that it is time to change WRTA because it is not run as a business.

CHRIS GOLEC

Austintown

Defeat Roe v. Wade

EDITOR:

When the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade it overthrew the intent of our founders, the protection of life by the government. The judicial activism of the federal courts was increased exponentially by the crescendo of this 1973 ruling. America, was placed under the iron boot of judicial tyranny.

We the people have been subjected to masses of propaganda, telling us that we need to get pro-life justices, a pro-life president, a pro-life amendment to the Constitution, in order to regain the right to life. The truth of the matter is in 35 years, we gotten nowhere. The Judas goats of the neo-conservatives and the useful idiots of the left and right, have betrayed the voters with these dead end solutions.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to remove jurisdiction of all federal courts with a simple majority vote.

This session of Congress has legislation commonly called the “sanctity of life act,” H.R. 2597. It would declare that “human life shall be deemed to exist at conception.” The bill also recognizes the authority of the states to protect the lives of unborn children and removes the abortion issue from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and district courts, thereby nullifying Roe v. Wade.

Please write your congressmen and senators to co-sponsor this legislation to rein-in the federal courts.

JOHN R. BEVERIDGE

Sharon, Pa.