Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp 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

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

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

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

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

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. bit.ly/3YBC0bf

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. bit.ly/3UcMlrk

he 🌳 is 🕷️ back

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.

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. bit.ly/3C2nDna

.Benjamin Payne 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. gpb.org/news/2024/10/2…

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. bit.ly/3BRDWn1

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

Tim Walz campaigning in Savannah today: "Let's just dispel the myth that Donald Trump is some type of businessman or whatever. This guy went bankrupt six times…Let's just talk turkey about things: Donald Trump's a loser in everything that he's done." #gapol

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz rallied supporters in Savannah amid the final days of Georgia's early voting period. GPB's Benjamin Payne reports. bit.ly/4fr91fw

Savannah resident Callie Beale shared that Georgia's six-week abortion ban forced her out-of-state for a medically necessary procedure, causing a dangerous delay in care that jeopardized her life and her daughter. GPB's Benjamin Payne reports. bit.ly/3Axiovn

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. gpb.org/news/2024/11/0…

"It is my belief that, as a mother, I should have been able to act without the government's interference in order to save my daughter's life." One Savannah woman's story of pregnancy under Georgia's six-week abortion ban: gpb.org/news/2024/10/3…

Tomorrow's presidential election will be the first since Georgia's six-week abortion ban took effect. A Savannah mother shared with me the story of her complicated pregnancy under the law, which she said harmed both her and her daughter. She's voting Harris. #gapol

I'm a Georgia voter 🗳️