Additional Boat News

Some yacht owners in Newport Beach are STINKING MAD that their dock access, which now costs $100/year, will be raised to $250 to $3,200/year (based on size) … so that the harbor can be dredged and sea walls can be repaired. What’s going on here!? Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum has an idea: “No matter how well they do — and the rich have done very, very well over the past few decades — their blood boils at the thought of contributing so much as an extra dime to public coffers, even if the money is specifically earmarked to improve their own communities.”

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