Housing, public safety, energy among Jacob's topics at State of the County address

San Diego County Board of Supervisors chair Dianne Jacob gave the State of the County address Feb. 6 and focused on housing, public safety, and energy.

"This spot right here, 1600 Pacific Highway, is a long way from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Jacob said a day after the national State of the Union address. "Here it's not about red versus blue. It's about nuts and bolts governing. Here we can turn up our civic sleeves and actually do our jobs and put people before politics."

The contrast between the federal government and the non-partisan county government includes the early 1990s when the count...