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Nashville-area public policy expert Clint Brewer on Thursday tapped Tennessee Attorney General Jonathon Skrmetti and the Volunteer State writ large as this week’s big winners; but nationally, the recovering journalist panned Donald Trump, Fox News in this week’s segment of Winners and Losers on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy. TRANSCRIPT Michael Patrick Leahy: You know, Clint, everybody waits with bated breath to hear you.. Clint Brewer: I think you’re making fun of me, Mike. Michael Patrick Leahy: No, people wanna know. You’ve got an excellent sense of who’s up and who’s down, who are the winners of this week, Clint Brewer? Clint Brewer: All right. So here, close to home, I’d have to say my old stomping grounds, the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, the state of Tennessee rose in the rankings to number three in the best states do business in the CNBC poll. You know, we’ve got a great business climate here. Michael Patrick Leahy: A lot of, see, I don’t believe that. I think we should be number one. Who’s one and two? I don’t know – but who’s better than Tennessee? Clint Brewer: Usually it’s, like, Texas. But you know, I mean,…

Original All-Star Panelist Crom Carmichael’s Crommentary on Wednesday’s episode of The Tennessee Star Report discussed the biggest environmental problem that few people are even aware of: the thousands of miles of abandoned, lead lined cables that are degrading into soil, water, and even the air. TRANSCRIPT Michael Patrick Leahy: Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, here is the Crommentary for Wednesday, July 12th, 2023. Crom Carmichael: Michael, as we know, the Biden administration has spent trillions of dollars on either infrastructure, a combination of what he calls infrastructure, and what he calls green energy programs. And there was an article in the Wall Street Journal that caught my eye. And I did not even know that this problem existed, and it’s a big one. And that is that the title of the column is America is Wrapped in Miles of Toxic Lead Cables. AT&T, Verizon, and whatnot over the decades installing phone lines and utility lines and all these various kinds of cables, over the decades, they used to be covered in lead – that was back before we knew that that was a terrible thing. And so now you have, examples and the Wall Street Journal went all out. This was,…