Ex-prober: Ferry safety lax
NO! Ya think? The place has been a pit for well over the last decade, and all the Island's elected officials knew it. They didn't do anything because their existence was predicated on the same unions feeding their campign coffers.

The worse ignorance of the mess down at the docks was from our local fishwrap. The S.I. Advance should have been all over this story, but they, too, turned a blind eye to the whole affair. Fer chrissake, one of the damn boats was named after their freakin' founder! If anyone had a vested interest in making sure the ship bearing Pappa Si Newhouse's name wasn't a potential charnal house of the sea it was the bastards on Fingerboard Road.