County and City of San Diego California

February is Museum Month in San Diego County, with half off 70-plus museums | KPBS Public Media BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) San Diego County's 37th annual Museum Month begins February 1, 2026, offering half-price admission for up to four people at more than 70 museums and cultural institutions throughout the region. Free passes are available at approximately 90 libraries countywide or can be downloaded digitally at sandiegomuseumcouncil.org. The program runs through February 28, 2026, and is supported by San Diego Foundation, Prebys Foundation, First 5 San Diego, Serra Cooperative Library System, the City and County of San Diego, and the California Arts Council. San Diego County Museum Month Returns for 37th Year, Offering Half-Price Cultural Access Across Region SAN DIEGO— For the 37th consecutive year, San Diego County residents and visitors will have expanded access to the region's cultural institutions through Museum Month, a February-long promotion offering 50 perce...

Major security drills could slow traffic at San Diego Navy bases through next week – San Diego Union-Tribune How Budget Cuts Created a Strategic Catastrophe Waiting to Happen TL;DR Post-Cold War base closures through BRAC eliminated San Francisco, Oakland, Long Beach, and Los Angeles naval facilities, leaving San Diego as the sole major West Coast homeport south of Washington State. Now 60 warships worth $80 billion depend on a single 2,400-foot-wide channel transited daily by Chinese-manufactured vehicle carriers—any one of which could scuttle or strike critical infrastructure to trap the Pacific Fleet for months. The March 2024 Baltimore bridge collapse—caused by a single errant containership—closed a major U.S. port for months and proved how fragile maritime chokepoints are. Ukraine's destruction of Russia's Black Sea Fleet and Baltimore's accident demonstrate that concentrated naval bases behind single access points have become strategic liabilities, yet annual Solid ...

The Disease Incidence and Resource Estimator (DIRE) is a geospatial predictive analytics platform designed to help decision-makers anticipate infectious disease outbreaks. UCSD team creates dashboard to predict disease outbreaks – NBC 7 San Diego —If Public Health Systems Can Use Them When Prediction Meets Politics: UC San Diego's New Dashboard Highlights Both the Promise and Peril of Anticipatory Public Health SAN DIEGO — Researchers at UC San Diego have unveiled a disease forecasting platform that could fundamentally change how governments prepare for infectious disease outbreaks—if they can overcome the political, technical, and institutional barriers that have plagued similar efforts. The Disease Incidence and Resource Estimator (DIRE) uses machine learning to predict dengue fever and malaria outbreaks in Brazil and Peru up to three months in advance while calculating the exact medical resources—vaccines, diagnostic tests, hospital beds, fumigation kits—needed to respon...