Tuesday, July 7, 2026

The Tom and Tim Show: Medicare turns 50 …

By Tim Redmond

… plus Airbnb, City College, and will the Pope listen to the transgender community?

 

 

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Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder of 48hills.

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