GwinnettForum | Number 25.16 | Feb. 25, 2025
HERE IS ONE OF THREE NEW MURALS in the Mountain Park area that now are on a new Extra Storage building behind Metro Diner. They can be seen from U.S. Highway 78. These murals were 100 percent funded by the property owner as a condition for a zoning variance. It was win-win-win for the property owner, the county and the community. The huge “Welcome to… “ mural was redesigned by Anat Ronen and painted by Anat Ronen, Alex Maksiov, and Pearl Minon. (Photo by Kate Pittman.)
TODAY’S FOCUS: What we’re seeing is no way to run a country
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Difficult to write legislation for the whole state
SPOTLIGHT: NDIMaxim Real Estate LLC
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s a way for DOGE to gain credibility
FEEDBACK: Several letters concerning classical music
UPCOMING: County proposes update to Sugarloaf Livable plan
NOTABLE: Woman’s Club offers three scholarships for Lilburn
RECOMMENDED: Bad Faith, by Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Macon has state’s largest arts and science museum
MYSTERY PHOTO: Today’s mystery revolves around a dog
CALENDAR: Taste of Lilburn is March 1 at Parkview High
What we’re seeing is no way to run a country
By Andy Brack
Editor, Charleston (S.C.) City Paper
FEB. 25, 2025 | When did it become cool to cozy up to the Russians?
Answer: Never – since the time Russia pointed thousands of nuclear weapons at the good old U.S. of A.
But President Donald Trump seems hellbent on rekindling his bromance with Russian thug leader Vladimir Putin, putting the world order at risk and making America less great.
Americans didn’t vote for this kind of nonsense. They didn’t vote in November to make us less secure militarily or economically.
Yes, they may have voted for Trump to lower the price of eggs (how’s that going?) or to change how immigration is handled or to take a different approach on some spectrum of wokeism and the culture wars. But Americans didn’t vote to cozy up to Nazism, Putin or make the country weaker. They didn’t vote against Ukraine.
What’s more, Americans didn’t vote to put national parks at risk. They didn’t vote for Social Security to be threatened. They didn’t vote for injustice and the pardoning of people who attacked police officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They didn’t vote to wreck the economy by making American crops and goods less desired around the world.
They didn’t vote to end medical research. They didn’t vote against vaccines, worse health care and more poverty.
And the good Lord knows, they didn’t vote for Elon Musk to fiddle around with the inner-workings of government and your private information while continuing to win billions of dollars of federal contracts.
And yet, here we are, one month into Trump’s second presidential term. And as Trump is leading America away from greatness, too many Americans continue to drink the Kool Aid, shout slogans and wear cultish red hats saying America is great when, in fact, they’re collaborating to rot it from the inside.
Liberals aren’t the only ones complaining. Conservative columnist Mona Charen, who worked in the Reagan White House in the 1980s, wrote this week in The Bulwark:
“It has been only four weeks since Trump took the oath of office, and I wonder whether casual voters or even those who truly despised Biden have taken onboard what they’ve done.
“The American republic is undergoing a constitutional crisis as the president attempts to rule as an autocrat (“He who saves his country violates no law,” he claimed), a heedless billionaire smashes through people’s lives and complex systems he doesn’t understand with sadistic glee, the Justice Department descends into corrupt bargains antithetical to the ethical standards upheld for two centuries, a Putin/Assad apologist sits atop our intelligence agencies, a conspiracy theorist/anti-vaccine fool directs our health agencies, and the United States is attempting to reverse 80 years of world leadership.”
What must happen now to save and strengthen the republic is that Republican congressional leaders need to wake from a slumber and start defending the Constitution. The Supreme Court needs to exercise its muscle to support the Constitution, instead of serving as a rubber stamp to conservative think tanks.
All of the sloganeering in the world isn’t going to keep America strong.
Congressmen like Joe Wilson of South Carolina, long a defender of Ukraine, need to lead the Congress away from anything that empowers Putin and weakens Ukraine. They can start with calling out Trump for lying that Ukraine started the war that threatens Europe’s security.
Folks, what’s happening in Washington now is no way to run a country. Wake up, America. Wake up, Washington. Get off this anti-democratic path before the country becomes unrecognizable.
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Difficult to write legislation for the whole state
The Georgia capitol, via Unsplash.
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
FEB. 25, 2025 | Being a member of the Georgia General Assembly can be difficult.
Voters send legislators to Atlanta to be their local voice in state politics. Yet at the same time, these senators and representatives must think what’s good for the whole state. Sometimes this can be difficult, for what is good for the goose (the people who elected you) may not be good for the gander (the entire state.) That’s what makes being a legislator difficult.
Two recent proposals are examples.
One is the 2024 statewide Adjusted Base Year Homestead Exemption introduced in House Bill 581, passed by the Legislature. Where did this come from? The legislators were concerned about rising property value assessments, and eventually about higher taxes. The proposal would essentially mean passage of a bill with floating homestead exemptions, plus new local option sales taxes, if approved in a statewide referendum. Yes, it passed, so this legislation became law.
Yet a problem reared its head. You see, the new bill required every county in the state to adopt this new procedure, even when what was proposed was already in existence in a different form in many counties, cities and school boards.
So what happened: numerous governments in the state opted out of this new law, keeping their own better homestead exemptions intact.
What legislators thought was good for the entire state was looked upon by some taxing authorities as not good for them. This legislation did not make sense for many areas. At least an “opt-out” was included in the exemption legislation.
Here’s another bit of legislation this year that shows the difficulty in writing legislation for the whole state.
A Macon legislator thinks the speed zone cameras in popular use to slow down traffic are abusive. He wants to abolish them, and has about 100 legislators signing a bill on this subject.
Yet other jurisdictions feel that speed zone cameras are useful in providing safer streets and slowing down motorists in school zones.
One local example is telling. In Norcross, Police Chief Bill Grogan says the speed zone cameras help his department in numerous ways. On February 4 of this year, at the four schools where there are cameras in Norcross, 90,851 cars drove by them, but only 146 vehicles were ticketed for speeding. Those ticketed were driving at least 37 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone. (Less than three percent of vehicles tagged for speeding are in the Norcross 30071 Zip Code.)
Chief Grogan also noted that before speed zone cameras, his officers investigated 2,200 accidents a year. Today that figure has fallen to only 1,235 crashes, with 300 fewer injuries each year.
Add another aspect: With 1,000 fewer accident investigations, this also frees up Norcross patrol officers an estimated 600+ hours a year to get back into patrolling neighborhoods and businesses, helping prevent crime. The school zone program is also 100 percent safe, with no chance of officers or drivers getting injured on the side of the road.
So in this case of speed zone cameras, the City of Norcross residents get safer streets, fewer accidents, and added police presence in the city.
Places like Macon, or rural areas, may not need speed zone cameras as much as some other areas. It’s another example of the difficulty of our senators and representatives writing solid statewide legislation for this growing state’s people.
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Here’s a way for DOGE to gain credibility
“The basic idea is that insurers win when patients look sicker and get less health care….Insurers are able to add diagnoses…for which patients are receiving no treatment at all.”-— Christopher Weaver, Wall Street Journal.
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | Health insurance is very complicated. Very few Americans understand the difference between Medicaid, Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Indeed, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed his total lack of understanding when he appeared before Congress at his recent confirmation hearings. Medicaid was set up in 1965 to cover lower income people.
Today’s column will address Medicare/Medicare Advantage, rather than Medicaid. Big companies are making outrageous profits. However, because it is so complex, this subject is not addressed very often. But that must change. Per single-payer advocacy group Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP): “The federal government is losing as much as $140 billion per year by subsidizing private Medicare Advantage plans.”
Traditional Medicare, administered by the Federal government with only two percent overhead, provides health insurance coverage to U.S. citizens over 65 years of age. It was also passed as part of Lyndon Baines Johnson’s social program legislation in 1965. From its start, traditional Medicare has been one of our government’s most popular programs.
But in the 1970s, a variation to Medicare was established, entitled Medicare Part C. Commonly known as Medicare Advantage, these are private health insurance plans which are then paid by the federal government. The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 was established during the Bush administration to encourage expansion of these private (mostly for-profit) insurance plans.
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are heavily … and deceptively … advertised, which has caused them to flourish in the last few decades. Of the 70 million Americans on Medicare, half are now on MA. But the fact that MA plans are either Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) or Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO) is never mentioned in the barrage of television, radio and social media ads. They ration care to create corporate profits. A 2018 Department of Health and Human Services report found that 18 percent of MA patient’s claims were wrongly denied by these for-profit insurance companies.
HMOs restrict patients to in-network health providers (doctors, hospitals, and the like); out of network care is billed 100 percent to the patient. PPOs also often have their own networks. But the patient has the choice of paying much more and using out-of-network providers. The adequacy of these networks has also come under scrutiny.
Does the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) really want to make a positive difference in our lives? DOGE could save Americans a tremendous amount of money by doing away with the Medicare Advantage program, enriching giant corporations like UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Cigna, and Blue Cross Blue Shield at taxpayer expense.
Instead, DOGE has attempted to abolish consumer friendly agencies like the CFPB, the aptly named Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has saved Americans billions by fighting for the common person rather than the giant corporations.
Ed Weisbart, MD, secretary of PNHP, has correctly stated: “Insurers are quietly plundering the Medicare trust fund for their own profits and compromising the health of senior citizens and [people with] disabilities.”
Therefore, phasing out Medicare Advantage would be a good start towards giving DOGE credibility. The bottom line for the Trump administration is: get your act together on health care. Or you will feel the wrath of the American public, both now and in 2026/2028.
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Comments about classical music
Editor, the Forum:
Enjoyed your piece on classical music. Nothing makes me fighting mad than a school board cutting an arts program to ”save money.”
I have been doubly blessed to have a mother who was a classically trained pianist, and a wife of 30 years who was an extraordinary church pianist and accompanist, a skill all too rare. Becky and I spent many wonderful evenings at the Atlanta Symphony.
The highlight of my listening life was about five years ago, hearing Joshua Bell and the symphony perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Extraordinary music and musicians. The great blessing of my life is these two women sharing their love of truly great music.
– Tim Anderson, Fitzgerald
Editor, the Forum:
Let me also say that The Lone Ranger got me into classical music. But even in the first grade, we started going to Chattanooga Symphony rehearsals where we not only got introduced to more classical music, but also had tutoring on the various instruments In the orchestra in pieces like Peter and the Wolf. There even was a cartoonist who put the piece in pictures.
– Raleigh Perry, Buford
Editor, the Forum:
I have heard it said that a real classical music lover can hear the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. I am not one of them. Whenever I hear those familiar strains, I immediately think of my then favorite radio program and in my mind add, “Hi-oh, Silver, away!!”
– Ardie Brackett, Lilburn
Dear Ardie: There are some sections of the William Tell Overture, especially the quiet beginning, which The Lone Ranger doesn’t make use of, that I can hear and not immediately think of the Lone Ranger. But a few moments later, I know what is going to happen, and I get ready to ride along with him. It’s fun!—eeb
Looney Tunes made major use of classical composers
Editor, the Forum:
For me, my introduction to the classics was Bugs Bunny. Look at this list of 15 pieces of classical music that showed up in “Looney Tunes” cartoons:
- Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325, by Johann Strauss II (1868).
- The Blue Danube, by Johann Strauss II (1866).
- Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride, by Bedrich Smetana (1866).
- Minute Waltz in D-Flat, by Frédéric Chopin (1847).
- Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna, by Franz von Suppé (1844).
- The Barber of Seville Overture, by Gioachino Rossini (1816).
- Beethoven’s 7th ,by Ludwig van Beethoven (1811-12).
- Träumerei (“Dreaming”), by Robert Schumann (1838).
- Largo al Factotum from The Barber of Seville, by Gioachino Rossini (1816).
- 1Johannes Brahms’ Hungarian Dances(1869).
- TheWilliam Tell Overture, by Gioachino Rossini (1829).
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,by Franz Liszt (1847).
- The Overture from The Flying Dutchman, by Richard Wagner (1843).
- “Pilgrim’s Chorus” from Tannhäuser, by Richard Wagner (1845).
- Ride of the Valkyriesfrom Die Walküre, by Richard Wagner (1870).
– J.K. Murphy, Lawrenceville
Editor, the Forum:
While I don’t recall my introduction to classical music, I can say Beethoven gets me through the winter. The symphonies express every mood. Their order, themes and beauty warm the coldest heart. For your readers, the YouTube videos from the Vienna Philharmonic are stunning—visually and audibly.
– Jack Wilson, Lawrenceville
Maybe someday we’ll eventually have MWGA
Editor, the Forum
When touring the United Nations, I remember the hope I experienced: the dream of a world based on peace and respect is a powerful goal. Unity of the world provides hope that we all need.
Unfortunately, nationalism and self interest have so weakened the United Nations to achieve the goal of world peace. The horror of the October 7 massacre and Israel’s military response is what an effective United Nations could have avoided. We need a united world. Instead of the MAGA. I suggest MWGA: “Make the World Great Again.”
– Alan Schneiberg, Sugar Hill
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County proposes update to Sugarloaf Livable plan
The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners recently voted to propose an update to the Sugarloaf Livable Centers Initiative Master Plan.
The Atlanta Regional Commission’s LCI program provides financial assistance to support local planning initiatives, and this update will help guide future development in the Sugarloaf area.
Board of Commissioners Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson says the plan update will help the County strengthen its long-term vision for the district. “Our goal is to keep the Sugarloaf area a vibrant economic and cultural hub for Gwinnett County,” Hendrickson says. “This update will allow us to refine our vision for the district, strengthen infrastructure and create an even more welcoming environment for businesses, residents and visitors.”
Originally created in 2018, the Sugarloaf LCI Master Plan has served as a roadmap for strategic growth, leading to new development and infrastructure investments in the area. Most recently, the County adopted a sub-overlay district last December to further encourage redevelopment in the area.
To continue this momentum, the proposed plan update will focus on re-establishing land use recommendations, identifying infrastructure improvements and supporting creative placemaking efforts. The project has an estimated budget of $350,000, with a required 20 percent local match of $70,000. The Sugarloaf Community Improvement District will partner with the County on the project, splitting the local match so that the County’s portion will be $35,000.
If approved, the planning process will include opportunities for community engagement and stakeholder input.
Great Gwinnett Wetlands Day is March 1
Marking the 11th year since its founding, Great Gwinnett Wetlands 2025 will incorporate two work sites devoted to restoring native wildlife habitats. Hosted on Saturday, March 1, the annual wetlands stewardship event coincides with the United Nations’ World Wildlife Day, a global observation designed to celebrate wild animals and plants and their unique contributions to the planet.
The two Great Gwinnett Wetlands 2025 worksites include:
- Site 1: Club Drive Park: Led by Parks and Recreation staff, volunteers will conduct a clean-up and manage invasive plant species to prevent deterioration of this local wetland. This site is located at 3330 Club Drive in Lawrenceville.
- Site 2: Gateway Park at Gas South District. Led by Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful and Gwinnett Water Resources staff, volunteers will participate in a litter clean-up and help with erosion control. This site is located at 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth. Questions can be directed to 678-277-0904.
As one of the largest counties in Georgia’s Piedmont Region, Gwinnett County is abundant with wetlands that surround area creeks, streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes. Those wetlands are home to countless species of local flora and fauna. Great Gwinnett Wetlands is vital to the ongoing stewardship of Gwinnett’s numerous wetlands.
Woman’s Club offers three scholarships for Lilburn
The Lilburn Woman’s Club will award three $2,500 scholarships to deserving female high school seniors. These scholarships recognize students who demonstrate leadership, active involvement in their school and community, and a strong commitment to pursuing higher education. Students facing special circumstances or challenges will also be considered. To be eligible, students must reside within the 30047 zip code or attend a school located within the 30047 zip code. This includes students attending public, private, or home schools.
The online application is available at https://lilburnwomansclub.org. The deadline for submission is Saturday, March 15. Questions can be directed to scholarships@lilburnwomansclub.org.
These scholarships are funded through the Lilburn Woman’s Club’s fundraising efforts, including popular community events such as the Lilburn Daze Arts and Crafts Festival, and the Taste of Lilburn.
The Lilburn Woman’s Club, a 501(c)(3) organization, is dedicated to promoting impactful projects within the Community Service Programs of Arts and Culture, Civic Engagement and Outreach/Domestic Violence, Education and Libraries, Environment, Health and Wellness, and other district, state, or national projects of the Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Gwinnett Tech adds four new board members
Gwinnett Technical College has four new members to its board of directors. They are shown with Melvin Everson, left, and Dr. Glen Gordon, right, who are vice president and president of Gwinnett Tech. New board members are, from left next to Everson, Albert Soto of RudHil Companies, LLC; Brandon Hartley of AT&T; Matthew Hunt, founder of C2H Air and Electric; and Natalie Cho, Missy Cosmetics.
Bad Faith, by Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones
From Rick Krause, Lilburn: The present-day assault on democracy, including the insurrection on January 6, 2021, did not begin with Trumpism, the Tea Party, nor the Moral Majority and the Religious Right. It began with the white supremacy movement in the 1960’s as part of a shrewd, calculated, and well executed plan that became cloaked as a religious movement. Today those white supremacists and their followers are known as Christian Nationalists. Bad Faith tells how Christian Nationalism became the most powerful political force in the nation. Christian Nationalists believe that the will of the majority is not as important as the will of God. They are in stark conflict with democracy, in which the people rule, and with the idea that church and state should be separate. Excellent documentary, available for streaming on Kanopy through the Gwinnett County Public Library, and elsewhere.” The full title is Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy.
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Macon has state’s largest arts and science museum
Established in 1956, the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon is Georgia’s largest institution devoted to the arts and sciences.
It serves as a regional resource for lifelong learning and enrichment by providing exhibitions and programming of scientific, historical, cultural, and artistic value. The museum offers a multidisciplinary facility housing art and science galleries, a planetarium and observatory, the three-story interactive Discovery House, a live-animal complex, nature trails, and an off-site nature preserve. The museum has an annual visitation of nearly 100,000 people per year, including 25,000 schoolchildren. The museum became a Smithsonian affiliate in January 2005, allowing local curators to access the Washington-based institution’s 143 million-item collection.
Each year the museum showcases an extensive schedule of changing and permanent exhibitions in the arts and sciences. In the last several years the museum has shown such exhibitions as Fired by Genius: The Ceramics of Pablo Picasso; Mysteries of Egypt; A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie; Sunlight and Shadow: American Impressionism; Dinosaurs: The Invasion; and The Art of Tiffany. In addition, the museum preserves nearly 5,000 cultural objects in its permanent collection, including an early cubist etching by Pablo Picasso and a lamp by Louis Comfort Tiffany, as well as many paintings, ceramics, textiles, and other decorative and fine works of art. The museum’s natural science collection includes rocks, minerals, shells, and a 40-million-year-old whale fossil, Zygorhiza, or Ziggy, which was discovered at a local kaolin mine.
The Discovery House provides an interactive adventure for children of all ages. Three floors of hands-on exhibitions explore art, science, and the humanities. Nestled next to the Discovery House is the Backyard, which is centered on a replica of a banyan tree. The Backyard is home to the museum’s live collection of animals, featuring an alligator, Geoffrey’s tamarins (small monkeys native to the Central American rainforest), a kinkajou (a small, nocturnal, arboreal mammal related to the raccoon and found in the wild from Mexico southward), a variety of snakes and birds, and much more.
Visitors can journey to the vast reaches of space in the Mark Smith Planetarium, where the night sky is recreated with more than 4,000 twinkling stars. Planetarium shows are presented daily, and a weekly program provides the latest information about current and upcoming celestial events. Telescope and meteorite clinics offer the experience of selecting and using a telescope and identifying meteorites. Visitors may also use the museum observatory’s telescope to view celestial objects.
Brown’s Mount, a 200-acre satellite site for environmental education southeast of Macon, allows for the study of multiple habitats, microhabitats, and wildlife. The museum provides a variety of programs at Brown’s Mount, including day and evening hikes, educational camps, and curriculum programs for school groups.
The museum’s newly restored on-site nature trails offer visitors a close-up view of native plants and animals. Of special interest along one of the trails is a grouping of concrete forms called Ruins and Rituals created by Athens artist Beverly Buchanan. She donated the interactive sculpture to the museum in 1979, intending for visitors to walk around it, climb on top of it, and regard it from different viewpoints.
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Today’s mystery revolves around a dog
Today’s Mystery Photo is about a dog, a particular dog, with a fascinating story. Figure out where this photo was taken, and tell us about this dog. Send your ideas to ebrack2@gmail.com, and include your hometown.
The last mystery came from Rick Krause of Lilburn. Several people figured out the mystery, including the reliable George Graf of Palmyra, Va., who wrote: “This is the Carmichael House, 149 McDonough Road, Jackson, Ga. It was built by John Robert (J.R.) Carmichael, a prosperous businessman and buggy maker, as a home for his family of 11 children. The prestigious Atlanta architectural firm of Bruce and Morgan was selected to design and construct the mansion. Construction began in late 1897. By summer of 1898, the imposing Queen Anne Victorian home was completed for the sum of $16,000.The Carmichael House is on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the finest examples of Queen Anne Victorian architecture in the state.”
Others finding the correct identity included Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C. and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, who added: “The house continued to serve as the home for some of Carmichael’s family members after J.R.’s death in 1908. Eventually it was sold and subdivided for use as apartments during the Great Depression. It was later restored and served as a bed and breakfast and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1977. More recently, it was purchased by the Garrett and Beck families in January 2016, who renovated the house and expanded the grounds, and reintroduced the property to the public in October 2018 as an elegant wedding venue and event center.”
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Taste of Lilburn is March 1 at Parkview High
The third annual Taste of Lilburn will be Saturday, March 1 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Parkview High School, 998 Cole Road, Lilburn. Listen to live entertainment, view the Spring Into Art competition between area middle school students, and sample foods from around the world and around the corner. Pre-purchase food tickets at tasteoflilburn.org. or at the door.
Thinking about returning to college? On March 1 at the Norcross Branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library there will be a workshop, College Admissions 101 for Adult Learners. Don’t miss this engaging workshop where adult learners will share their stories of returning to school, applying to colleges, and navigating the admissions process.
Join the Great Gwinnett Wetlands field work on Saturday, March 1 at two sites. Help give some extra TLC to one of our most important water resources – our wetlands! Join to help remove litter, manage invasive plants, and protect the health of our environment! This is a joint effort of Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, Gwinnett Parks and Recreation and Gwinnett Water Resources. To volunteer, click here.
Gwinnett State of the County presentation will be presented on March 6 at 8:30 a.m. at 12 Stone Church, 1322 Buford Drive in Lawrenceville. Commission Chairwoman Nicole Hendrickson will reflect on the past year’s accomplishments and share the vision for the upcoming year and beyond.
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