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Working with climate pediatrician groups, Nguyen noticed San Diego lacked a heat officer, an official responsible for protecting citizens from extreme heat.

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The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet, as well as local in-person events.

The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet, as well as local in-person events.

For many people, last year’s protests and uprisings against police brutality and other forms of systemic racism were a catalyst for their own awareness and acknowledgement of these problems. It was the killing of George Floyd, specifically — he died during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minn., when a police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes, for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill — that led to an increased interest in understanding and fighting systemic racism, and reco...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Another COVID relief package is nearly on its way, eight wrenching months after Americans received their onetime stimulus checks. A sprawling $900-billion pandemic relief bill was passed by both houses of Congress on Monday night. It now awaits President Trump’s signature. Advertisement As my D.C. colleague Jennifer Haberkorn reports, congressional leaders in both parties were under mount...