Benjamin Payne

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

I'm a Georgia voter 🗳️

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Several survivors testified Thursday at a Georgia Senate hearing on the recent Sapelo Island dock collapse that killed seven people. One woman recounted having to let go of her uncle, who would later die, in order to save her own life. https://t.co/TcD1DmYcTx

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Feels like summer (if summer in Savannah felt nice), but looks like fall. Halloween is nigh.

[GPB News @gpbnews]

The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus and civil rights attorneys held a news conference Monday evening vowing to seek accountability and justice after part of a state-operated ferry dock collapsed Saturday on the island, killing seven people.
https://t.co/NpFdytWh4w

[Justin Glawe @JustinGlawe]

.@benjaminpayne is all over the Sapelo dock collapse story, where descendant and Sapelo native JR Grovner tells GPB he warned officials the structure was unsafe — before it failed, killing seven. https://t.co/ObSuub7jbO

[GPB News @gpbnews]

A resident of Sapelo Island in McIntosh County said that he warned the Georgia Department of Natural Resources last summer that the agency's ferry dock gangway on the island was in poor condition, months before it collapsed Saturday, killing seven people.
https://t.co/hxCHHNeGY0

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Tragedy on coastal Georgia's Sapelo Island, where the dock's gangway collapsed Saturday, killing at least seven people. An annual festival of Gullah Geechee culture was happening on the island. Here's a photo of the dock that I took aboard a ferry last month on a reporting trip.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: At least seven people were killed after part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island, according to authorities. https://t.co/hT7Cr2Olzz

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

he 🌳 is 🕷️ back

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

He's back — now with fangs and a parking sign to enforce

[GPB News @gpbnews]

A Savannah man has been found guilty on six federal charges for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

In a ruling issued Monday Dominic Box, 34, was convicted on two felony counts of civil disorder and four misdemeanors.
https://t.co/eVvwPY8sGp

[GPB News @gpbnews]

LISTEN: GPB's Benjamin Payne traveled to Coastal Georgia's Sapelo Island, where he spoke with Gullah Geechee community members about a recent rezoning that they worry will price out descendants of enslaved people.
https://t.co/b1mx2oHgN9

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Savannah voter Jude Blassingale expressed a similar concern about political division in the U.S. On why she decided to vote the first day she could: "I'm just afraid of the political climate this time around. It doesn't seem so safe. So, I want to do it very, very early." #gapol

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Early voting in Georgia begins today. Savannah resident Lila Black-Berlon told me after she cast her ballot that she doesn't enjoy living in a battleground state, and explained why. #gapol

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Early voting in Georgia begins today. Savannah resident Lila Black-Berlon told me after she cast her ballot that she doesn't enjoy living in a battleground state, and explained why. #gapol

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Early voting in Georgia starts Tuesday. Enthusiasm appears to be running high in Savannah, where I saw not one but two of these signs with election-related deadlines on a yard in my neighborhood. #gapol

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Monica and Leon Childress drove 10 hours with their puppy from Bradenton, Florida, to a hotel in Savannah to evacuate from Hurricane Milton. They don't know when they'll be able to return home, but told me they're grateful the hurricane veered from its initial trajectory. #Milton

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Georgia @GovKemp in Savannah yesterday: "With the amount of power we have coming back on [after Helene], people's water coming back on, grocery stores opening back up, we've been able to pull back some of our Guard resources so we can re-deploy them if needed to Florida." #Milton

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

In Georgia's southeasternmost county, Camden County, emergency management director Chuck White told me there's still much debris from Helene that has yet to be picked up from people's yards, and that it could create a "missile hazard" with Milton. https://t.co/M2oRXV7Nz1 #Milton

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Andy Leanza, the emergency management director for Glynn County, Georgia, told me today that saturated ground and damaged infrastructure caused by Hurricane Helene will likely make his area more vulnerable to Hurricane Milton than it would otherwise be. #Milton

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

My new address wouldn't show up on Georgia's My Voter Page when I tried to update it, so I had to visit my county's voter registration office in person. Whatever it takes. Vote.

[Gabriel Sterling @GabrielSterling]

You still have time. Go to our Online Voter Registration page at https://t.co/fGDpPIjFa8 before 11:59pm today. You can still register to vote in the November election. Your vote is your voice. #gapol

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Andy Leanza, the emergency management director for Glynn County, Georgia, told me today that saturated ground and damaged infrastructure caused by Hurricane Helene will likely make his area more vulnerable to Hurricane Milton than it would otherwise be. #Milton

[National Hurricane Center @NHC_Atlantic]

Here are the Key Messages for rapidly intensifying category 4 Hurricane #Milton for Monday late morning. The latest advisory is at https://t.co/tW4KeGe9uJ

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

Former President Donald Trump will be heading back to Savannah later this month to speak at an NRA event. He held a rally last week in Savannah focused loosely on his economic agenda for higher tariffs and a lower corporate tax rate: https://t.co/YfQ6crNOXZ

[Benjamin Payne @benjaminpayne]

I went to Savannah's Forsyth Park last night for my first time since Hurricane Helene hit, and saw this big magnolia tree toppled over next to the fountain. #Helene