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The Tom and Tim Show: A rotten year, a rotten smell …

... and a rotten new weed law? Plus a couple of fun things to do New Year's Eve. We talk about the week

By Tim Redmond

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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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