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Her poor decisions and performance are costing not only tax money but failed prosecution of criminals. She decided to chase the windmill of Donald Trump and lost sight of the purpose for which she was elected. Now, it’s the Georgia Bar’s turn to do something with Willis.</p></div><div class="story-paygate_placeholder"><div class="c-contentElements" data-start-index="5"><p class="story-text " data-index="6"><b>DEAN HEINZ</b>, JOHNS CREEK</p><p class="story-text " data-index="7"><b>Trump wants to drill no matter the cost</b></p><p class="story-text " data-index="8">Trump wants to drill baby, ignoring science and business truths.</p><p class="story-subscription__placeholder subscription-promo b-margin-bottom-d40-m20"></p><p class="story-text " data-index="10">The energy business will keep production to maximize profits regardless of inane dicta, but Trump has failed in non-real estate businesses. Trump is a marketing expert where truth is what you want the gullible to blindly follow.</p><div class="story-nativo_placeholder--moap b-clear-both "></div><p class="story-text " data-index="12">A recent article states the oil/gas industry is outsourcing work to India (profit motive). Will Trump penalize them (tariffs on labor), or is he beholden to their money?</p><p class="story-text " data-index="13"><b>BOB DALTON</b>, LILBURN</p><p class="story-text " data-index="14"><b>Sectors of society are being dismantled</b></p><p class="story-text " data-index="15">As a family doc, I am profoundly disturbed by Trump’s nomination of an anti-vaxxer, misinformation-spewing candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Public health policies and organizations are being attacked, i.e., CDC, WHO and vital public health reports, putting all of us in danger.</p><p class="story-text " data-index="16">And then there are all the other sectors of our society that are being attacked or dismantled:</p><div class="MP03 arc_ad b-margin-bottom-d30-m20 "></div><div class="RP09 arc_ad b-margin-bottom-d30-m20 "></div><p class="story-text " data-index="19">— The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant sentiment is draconian.</p><p class="story-text " data-index="20">— Climate change is being denied in the fact that 2024 was the hottest year on record, with 27 major climate disasters (fires, hurricanes, etc.) exacerbated by bizarre fluctuations in climate.</p><p class="story-text " data-index="21">— Women’s rights over their bodies are being attacked.</p><p class="story-text " data-index="22">— Administration blaming seemingly everything on “DEI,” which is pure racism and white nationalism, in my opinion.</p><p class="story-text " data-index="23">— “Globalism” is being attacked in an era when humans (as well as viruses and other organisms) are able to travel halfway around the world in about 15 hours, to infect people anywhere on the globe.</p><div class="PX01 arc_ad b-margin-bottom-d30-m20 "></div><p class="story-text " data-index="25">The current administration is wasting so much time turning our country insularly backward, whereas we Americans, with global cooperation, could help make the world a safer and better place for all humanity. The isolationist policy does not “make us great” — just look what happened in Afghanistan when reactionary voices took over.</p><p class="story-text " data-index="26"><b>SALPI ADROUNY, M.D.</b>, JOHNS CREEK</p></div></div></div></span><span class="post-article-body" data-pagezone="post-article-body"><div class="c-section full-width b-clear-both"></div><div class="c-section full-width b-clear-both"><div class="more-stories">More Stories</div><div class="line"></div><div class="b-flexRow b-flexColumn -mobile"><div class="endOfStory"><div class="c-top-img-no-img b-margin-bottom-d30-m20" data-sectiontitle="Keep Reading"><p class="column-title">Keep Reading</p><div class="column-content"><div class=" c-story-tease bold-text hide-description "><a href="/opinion/readers-write/PILG2KMARVCTDB2RQNWQNMSKTQ/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><picture class="" style="display:none"><source srcSet="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/UVECQK5FSBGSVMNS5KZ2LHFAHU.jpg?auth=9c9032d0f59c49157c4924566c2c63759f635852f293e192017b3f69f43628ec&width=600&height=400&smart=true" media="(min-width: 1200px)"/><source srcSet="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/UVECQK5FSBGSVMNS5KZ2LHFAHU.jpg?auth=9c9032d0f59c49157c4924566c2c63759f635852f293e192017b3f69f43628ec&width=600&height=400&smart=true" media="(min-width: 768px)"/><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/UVECQK5FSBGSVMNS5KZ2LHFAHU.jpg?auth=9c9032d0f59c49157c4924566c2c63759f635852f293e192017b3f69f43628ec&width=500&height=500&smart=true" alt="FEBRUARY 28, 2013-ATLANTA: Public art Provocateur, Randy Osborne works on his "Letter A Day" project in his Inman Park apartment on Thurs. 28th, 2013. 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Trump is a marketing expert where truth is what you want the gullible to blindly follow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6OIDTKDQNHR7LA5ZYZPBDSDGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179598,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[{"comment":"that ","pos":24},{"comment":"; will ","pos":91}]},"content":"A recent article states the oil/gas industry is outsourcing work to India (profit motive). 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Kennedy Jr. Public health policies and organizations are being attacked, i.e., CDC, WHO and vital public health reports, putting all of us in danger.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FB5XRD3SD5EK5ASL4HRD65LNFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179602,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"And then there are all the other sectors of our society that are being attacked or dismantled:","type":"text"},{"_id":"XIRMRVSFS5F5FB3IR22RUK6LRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179603,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[{"comment":"- ","pos":0}]},"content":"— The Trump administration’s anti-immigrant sentiment is draconian.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLH5NO6YKBHHHHRVITFOXY56XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179604,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[{"comment":"- ","pos":0}]},"content":"— Climate change is being denied in the fact that 2024 was the hottest year on record, with 27 major climate disasters (fires, hurricanes, etc.) exacerbated by bizarre fluctuations in climate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NXU4RHGIKBGFTKG4M3NQFLTPOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179605,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[{"comment":"- ","pos":0}]},"content":"— Women’s rights over their bodies are being attacked.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VNEQOOGFVHCFD42BSR74RJROQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179606,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[{"comment":"- ","pos":0},{"comment":", unhinged,","pos":16}]},"content":"— Administration blaming seemingly everything on “DEI,” which is pure racism and white nationalism, in my opinion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AF4IOEOL2VGZPMBVUQBNIXR7YM","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179607,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[{"comment":"- ","pos":0}]},"content":"— “Globalism” is being attacked in an era when humans (as well as viruses and other organisms) are able to travel halfway around the world in about 15 hours, to infect people anywhere on the globe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APR42ZIVHRD2DFWMJHEMYZUDK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179608,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[{"comment":" --","pos":255},{"comment":"at ","pos":268}]},"content":"The current administration is wasting so much time turning our country insularly backward, whereas we Americans, with global cooperation, could help make the world a safer and better place for all humanity. The isolationist policy does not “make us great” — just look what happened in Afghanistan when reactionary voices took over.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MM5KBKZLGZDKHHSQVZRJMXTV4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179609,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[{"comment":"Quoting Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer for The New Yorker: “We’re in a moment when the politics have veered off so drastically from any of the actual policy discussions of what needs to be and should be happening, that there’s a level of dysfunction (in the current administration) that is new.”","pos":0}]},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHPASUMS5NH2XIFHFPOQYTZV6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1739126179610,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[]},"content":"<b>SALPI ADROUNY, M.D.</b>, JOHNS 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It was a point of contention in the CEO runoff debate in June, with Cochran-Johnson honestly admitting that infrastructure changes were critical and would require rate increases and federal support. The Trump administration and whatever “DOGE” has become is beyond unlikely to support sewer and water infrastructure in DeKalb."},{"_id":"QQJXMHVVUNFEXBIF3QWC7XFC2Y","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739807566335},"type":"text","content":"But time and time again, we are reminded of what is beneath our feet."},{"_id":"7MXWYTDBO5F53MYW5474OYT62Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":11,"comment":"-"}],"comments":[],"_id":1739814959047},"type":"text","content":"With a weeklong water main break in Brookhaven in January and the memorable fiasco last summer in Atlanta when a 108-year-old pipe ruptured on Peachtree, the problem is becoming increasingly apparent. People often don’t consider water infrastructure until they can’t take a shower, they are under a boil water advisory or their neighborhood reeks of human feces because of a sewer overflow."},{"_id":"4UAVCI4IFJBWRFICZLBOWCSMMY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739807566336},"type":"text","content":"DeKalb County is considering a plan to raise water rates by 8 to 10% each year over the next 10 years. Admittedly, that doesn’t sound great. But the best decisions aren’t easy, and if there is one thing that everyone in DeKalb truly has in common, it’s drinking and bathing in the same water."},{"_id":"WLIX7P3S2NGVLI4AQG2TLVO7SM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":60,"comment":"C"}],"comments":[],"_id":1739814959049},"type":"text","content":"We all drink from the same well. If that isn’t enough, the county is still at risk of legal liability for sewer overflows."},{"_id":"KCIX4F2MVZHKRHCNE3XXLKMBTQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739807566337},"type":"text","content":"This is also an environmental justice issue."},{"_id":"WK7WBI2MXRAVFGRDC35SBEFNDE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739814959051},"type":"text","content":"With the Candler Water plant being in North DeKalb, development in South DeKalb has historically been stifled because of less water infrastructure. Today, the Snapfinger Wastewater Treatment Plant in South DeKalb is undergoing improvements to increase its capacity. However, the county is going to have to do and spend more in South DeKalb to stop sewage overflows."},{"_id":"YYUTCQUYLBANVPMIRASWJTHANE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739814959052},"type":"text","content":"Imagine that your neighborhood permeates the smell of raw sewage for weeks. Maybe then you will admit, it’s a good investment."},{"_id":"TXJXML27SBGDPCVFSJVKYTCWII","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739814959053},"type":"text","content":"Considerate of the fact that higher bills will impact the most disadvantaged residents, Commissioner Ted Terry has thoughtfully pursued the establishment of a Customer Advocacy Office to protect DeKalb residents."},{"_id":"BG7ZGGBMXFCJROUOI53OVHF3RY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739808652944},"type":"text","content":"Atlanta’s former mayor, Shirley Franklin, has proved to be a leader with great foresight. If you ever get to hear her speak, you might hear her reflect on how she ran for mayor with a vision of being the “public art mayor” but ended up as “the sewer mayor.”"},{"_id":"GZL3NTFMX5HJTJISO5PUCZSGTE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739814959055},"type":"text","content":"Franklin invested $2 billion to fix sewage overflow issues and $1 billion in drinking water infrastructure. 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Franklin boasts about being the sewer mayor, and I do not think anyone would ridicule Candler’s efforts as foolish today."},{"_id":"JP4FTIRFONDCBJQEOMTKKZCIGE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739808652946},"type":"text","content":"Ahead of proposed rate hikes, CEO Cochran-Johnson has been holding town halls across DeKalb to listen to residents’ concerns and offer a solution to DeKalb’s’ unfortunate reality."},{"_id":"5JRZWUVHCBGPDPBQ5YQOL25MPE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[{"pos":128,"comment":","}],"comments":[],"_id":1739814959060},"type":"text","content":"During her town hall in my hometown of Dunwoody, Cochran-Johnson noted that in DeKalb County we have three water breaks each day and more than a thousand each year."},{"_id":"JWDKMDNMWFGAHOOJ3P5WEE27PQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739814959061},"type":"text","content":"It’s better to bite the bullet now than to find yourself drinking dirty water later. 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There are many examples in nature, including gemstones and paint pigments. Even the color of blood comes from the <a href=\"https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/hemoglobin-and-functions-of-iron\">protein hemoglobin</a>, which contains iron."},{"_id":"DTDID3IZR5HWDHSCMSLHUHLCKM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119766},"alignment":"left","type":"text","content":"Investigating the colors of compounds containing transition metals leads you into some really amazing science — that’s part of what drew me to study this field."},{"_id":"WZGNCCXGLVA7ZNKDE6L2OFYTIM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119767},"alignment":"left","type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/ruby\">Rubies</a> and <a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/emerald-gemstone\">emeralds</a> are great examples of how a small amount of a transition metal — in this case, <a href=\"https://inl.gov/periodic-table/\">chromium</a> — can create a beautiful color in what would otherwise be a fairly boring-looking mineral."},{"level":5,"_id":"PJ2UHT4G6RD5LLXHNQKGOWD6EA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119768},"alignment":"left","type":"header","content":"Minerals and crystals"},{"_id":"OZ75HDAKWJBQHE5KKBSPVYAYAM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119769},"type":"text","content":"Both rubies and emeralds are <a href=\"https://shop.elsevier.com/books/introduction-to-mineralogy-and-petrology/haldar/978-0-12-820585-3\">minerals, which is a type of rock</a> with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered structure at the atomic level."},{"_id":"OW3QT6XWUBBTJN4B2RN72JTVY4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119770},"type":"text","content":"When this highly ordered structure extends in all three dimensions, <a href=\"https://theconversation.com/how-do-crystals-form-213202\">the mineral becomes a crystal</a>."},{"_id":"4EKF2Q2EBJGZRC7DUHPM4OUILY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119771},"type":"text","content":"With <a href=\"https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/Inorganic_Chemistry_(LibreTexts)/10%3A_Coordination_Chemistry_II_-_Bonding/10.02%3A_Bonding_Theories/10.2.01%3A_Crystal_Field_Theory\">a theory developed by physicists in the 1920s</a> called crystal field theory, scientists can explain why rubies and emeralds have the colors they do. 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Beryl’s crystal structure is more complicated than corundum’s because of the additional elements in the formula, but each aluminum ion is again surrounded by six oxygen ions."},{"_id":"AO3SXZCM55ABTP4V5PZE76SVEU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119774},"type":"text","content":"Pure corundum and beryl are colorless. The brilliant colors of rubies and emeralds come from the presence of very small amounts of <a href=\"https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/24/chromium\">chromium</a>. The chromium replaces about 1% of the aluminum in the corundum or beryl crystal when a ruby or emerald forms underground at a high temperature and pressure."},{"_id":"Z73DZ5DEEZFU5IJRL4MV523BY4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119775},"type":"text","content":"But how can one element — chromium — create the red color of a ruby and green color of an emerald?"},{"level":5,"_id":"6KRQJWH7OREDDCHFWDGNOCSJSQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119776},"type":"header","content":"Color science"},{"_id":"VTR7FNIFMFDTXCL6JRMHNUZIEE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119777},"type":"text","content":"Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. These colors make up the <a href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/ems/09_visiblelight/\">visible light spectrum</a>, which is easy to remember as ROY G BIV."},{"_id":"FK7W5YTCIVBJDJCWEGAGVU37RU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119778},"type":"text","content":"One of the main reasons <a href=\"https://theconversation.com/why-is-the-sky-blue-246393\">objects have a color</a> is because they absorb one or more of these visible colors of light. If a substance absorbs, for instance, red light, it means that the red light gets trapped in the substance and the other colors reflect back to your eyes. The color you see is the sum of the remaining light, which will be in the green-to-blue range. 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They cause the emerald to absorb blue and red light, leaving the green for you to see."},{"_id":"DWWWBRIL65ACTHZQCWZG5NPYMA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119781},"type":"text","content":"The ability to tune the properties of transition metals like chromium through changing what is surrounding it is a core strategy in my field of inorganic chemistry. Doing so can help scientists understand the basic science of metal-containing compounds and the design of chemical compounds for specific purposes."},{"_id":"APU6AM3QFZAEHGQFKYTQB44KZA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119782},"type":"text","content":"You can take delight in the amazing colors of the gemstones, but through chemistry, you can also see how nature creates those colors using an endless variety of complex structures made with the elements in the periodic table."},{"_id":"ZCFQH6MMMBFYXGYES6CKE4AL2A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1739465119783},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://theconversation.com/profiles/daniel-freedman-2254243\"><i>Daniel Freedman</i></a><i> is dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Management at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.</i>"}],"display_date":"2025-02-18T11:00:00Z","credits":{"by":[{"org":"","name":"Daniel Freedman","additional_properties":{"original":{"author_type":""}},"type":"author"}]},"subtype":"Article","headlines":{"basic":"Why are rubies red? 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