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Chatham Area Transit employs “essential” workers.
They are the bus drivers, the men and women who keep the service operational, who during the scary early days of the COVID-19 pandemic put their health at risk by climbing behind the wheel and ferrying their neighbors, including frontline medical pros and first-responders, to and from work.
Judging by hazard pay bonuses, though, those drivers were less “essential” than CAT’s executives and administrative staff who kept working last spring and summer but could do so from home or in isolated workspaces.
Much less essential.
As Savannah Morning News Journalist Katie Nussbaum reports in a story published Thursday on SavannahNow.com, CAT records show office personnel saw hazard pay bonuses in excess of $9,000. Executives received an additional $20,000 or more in compensation.
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Every good trial lawyer is an expert at repeating one phrase: “I object.”
Even so, Chatham County District Attorney Shalena Cook Jones’ recent objection to a parole reform proposal was as befuddling to the public as the legal language in website terms of service agreements. Georgia House Bill 168, introduced by local lawmaker Jesse Petrea and passed by the House last month, is meant to assist prosecutors in challenging the early release of violent felons.
The bill, now being considered by the Senate, is specific to the worst of the worst, such as murderers, rapists, child molesters, kidnappers the criminals that Cook Jones and her colleagues spend so much time and energy to put behind bars.
Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson knows what slavery smelled like.
He was 14 years old and on a trip with friends to Cape Coast Castle, located along the shore of his homeland, the African nation of Ghana. He arrived thinking castles were “associated with kings and queens and knights in shining armor.”
He left with the “scent of suffering” in his nostrils.
“The fort is built of porous stone that absorbs odors, and when you descend into the dungeons, you can still smell the sweat and other bodily functions of thousands of men who were kept there before being put on ships for the Americas,” DeGraft-Hanson said. “The memory of that smell is still with me.”