By Rob Smith — The state’s coastal regulating agency is already starting the new year on the wrong foot. The Coastal Resources Management Council quietly announced last month that longtime council member and Little Compton resident Donald Gomez was resigning. Gomez, who prior to his professional retirement worked as an electric engineer for the Navy in Newport, had been serving in some capacity on CRMC’s executive panel since 2007.

By Chris Burrell — Massachusetts should be a beach lover’s paradise, but access to the state’s shores is deeply uneven. Entry to most beaches is dependent on personal wealth, your home zip code and a shrinking allotment of “visitor” parking spaces clustered far from the water and a system of parking restrictions aimed at out-of-towners.

By Frank Carini — All seven appointed members to the currently shorthanded Coastal Resources Management Council board have expired terms…

By Cindy Sabato — Save The Bay’s vision for a fully swimmable, fishable and healthy Narragansett Bay has always included the phrase “accessible to all.” Time and again, we have stepped in to defend Rhode Islanders’ right to the get to the shoreline…