We had between 1,000 to 2,000 passes sold in the first weeks, but right now we're averaging at about 3,000 a day. People have responded well to them, but we have had some people who did not agree with the changes.

Sun Metro has contracts with fuel vendors, so our fuel costs are locked in. Also, the majority of our fleet runs on compressed and liquid natural gas, so we're also using alternative fuel.

We believe the day pass is beneficial to most people because it's not restrictive or time sensitive like the transfers used to be.

Wal-Mart is here and we're going to make sure that everyone is moving in the right direction.

Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.