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The Tom and Tim Show: Failures at the Democratic Party, at the Chronicle, and in homeless policy

By Tim Redmond

We talk about the best and (all too often) the worst of the week

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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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