Tweet Share This year was hard, strange and seemingly interminable. But the end of 2020 is here. We're still sorting through the literal and figurative wreckage of the Christmas Day bombing, one of the year's biggest stories. Sadly, it fits in with the other big stories we covered this year, from a devastating tornado to a deadly pandemic. Naturally, though, our list of most-read Pith in the Wind posts from this year also includes a couple of local (or newly local) jerks. Thanks for reading. Nashville prosecutors were already being instructed to work toward alternatives to incarceration for people arrested for simple marijuana possession, but in July Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk made it official. Following similar steps taken by progressive prosecutors in other cities, he announced that his office would stop prosecuting people for simple marijuana possession, saying that such charges "do little to promote public health, and even less to promote public safety."Â