I was honored to deliver the 2025 State of the County address this week from the beautiful San Diego Natural History Museum.

If you were there in the room, thank you for joining us. But if you weren’t, I invite you to watch the address from home and join me for a talk about progress. About taking one step forward… and one step back. About building things up… and tearing things down.

I’m talking about this moment we’re all living through, where it feels like our entire nation is taking a big step backward.

But we’ve been here before. This dialectic is the arc of America’s history — we’ve faced tough times, and we know how to lead through them.

San Diego County, let’s lead.

State of The County Address 2025