It is amazing how the State comes up with yet more ways to screw the working people. Does anyone really think this so called new fund will be used to retrieve sunken boats?

How about you charge the damn owner. Why should people pay extra extortion money to the State for not doing their job with the money we already give them? These boats don’t grow underwater far as I know.

Hurricane relief funds are for these types of things also. What happened money disappeared somewhere else?

So again, responsible people are forced to pay for the irresponsible people who get off Scot free. You can be sure when the State gets done with this; the local towns and cities will use it as an excuse to raise their fees or taxes on boat owners. These types of people drove the fishing industry from this State and continue to ham string them yet again, taking money out of their pockets as well as responsible boat owners. Disgusting!

Jack, I totally agree with your conclusions. Two dollars for work that you and many other Rhode Islanders have already paid for. But imagine if you live here in the Tiverton - Little Compton area and you've been told by this tax and spend state government that the new Sakonnet Bridge that was paid for with federal stimulus funds will now have a $2 toll [minimum as there is talk of $4] each way slapped on the citizens of these two towns! Most people don't even realize that you can't even get a RIPTA bus in this part of the state. Our two towns pay taxes like the 3 East Bay towns but no buses for the two Sakonnet Side towns. You live in Tiverton or Little Compton and you don't have a car or bike you're literally up the creek, you walk. How fair is that? We can't travel to any part of RI without paying that toll including to towns within our own Newport County! If you live in Tiverton - Little Compton and you want to go to Warwick then you pay a tolls to cross the new Sakonnet Bridge then next you pay a toll to gross the Newport Bridge and finally a toll over the Jamestown / Pell bridge! No buses just tolls for the people of Tiverton and Little Compton. Enough is enough with the state picking our pockets incessantly.

When you post to a blog and get the following message: 'Pending Approval' sadly ny experience has been that roughly 99% of the time the companies who engage in this practice post these types of messages to hide behind the 'moderating' excuse because they don't really want to tell you what they're actually doing: engaging in censorship. Automatic word filters can be used to remove vulgar language. That process does not require a 'moderator'. Moderators are generally used to censor an individuals words or ideas that companies and governments don't want the public to see. However, I'm sure that's not the case with The Patch and AOL, is it? I ask because I've never recieved this message 'Pending Approval' before now. Thanks

All very true post there Rio, I live in Bristol and to go to Harbor mall or the Tiverton art festival, Caruthers etc, will now cost more, to visit friends and do work in Jamestown, tiverton etc cost more, I have to charge for that part of the trips, which I never did before.
The patch is owned by AOL/Huffingtonpost, they do the pending sometimes, but it seems to be sporadic at best. You are correct that many times agenda driven or person bias come into play on censoring. But these sites are owned by private companies with a very grey area in the “terms of service”, and they have the right to moderate and censor, no different than a media outlet does. It is the way of the new world ;-}

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