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“In California the homeless and prisoners are getting the vaccine before taxpayers,” Carolla wrote in a tweet. “It sounds like something out of Idiocracy. If that isn't the most California way of doing things I don't know what is.” In California the homeless and prisoners are getting the vaccine before taxpayers. It sounds like something out of Idiocracy. If that isn't the most California way of doing things I don't know what is.— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) March 1, 2021 Yet the decision to vaccinate the homeless and jail populations comes out of concern for the entire community, s...

Winter’s blast of misery brings out Dallas’ big philanthropic heart Cheryl Hall, The Dallas Morning News © Lola Gomez/Staff Photographer/The Dallas Morning News/TNS Paige Flink In all her years of fundraising, Family Place CEO Paige Flink has never experienced anything like Dallas’ rallying spirit during the February storms. And she hopes she never needs it again. Flink was sitting at her kitchen table command center when she sent a desperate tweet early in the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 16. The Family Place’s shelter was without power, 123 women and children were f...

Dying in the streets: the homeless population is growing older and sicker The number of elderly homeless is expected to triple by the end of this decade Tracy Larue, 48, stands next to the personal belongings of an elderly homeless man she said she knew was found dead early Wednesday morning under Interstate 45 and Harwood Street in Dallas, Wednesday, January 17, 2018. (David Woo / Staff Photographer) “These people are dying in the streets.” That’s how Wayne Walker, executive director of OurCalling homeless ministry, described the situation facing Dallas’s aging homeless population la...

Winter’s blast of misery brings out Dallas’ big philanthropic heart Local charities say the immediate outpouring of support was unlike anything they’ve experienced before. Burst pipes damaged one of The Family Place's transitional housing apartments where moms and kids live for up to one year.(Courtesy of the Family Place) In all her years of fundraising, Family Place CEO Paige Flink has never experienced anything like Dallas’ rallying spirit during the February storms. And she hopes she never needs it again. Flink was sitting at her kitchen table command center when she sent a desper...

Kevin Stuart had once accepted his homelessness as a fact of life. He even preferred it. On the streets, he could do meth without worrying about work. So, unless the weather was bad, he had no reason to go to a shelter. In 2019, though, he decided enough was enough. He wanted his life back, but getting back on the straight and narrow meant he'd need resilience. He recalled two months he spent in a shelter. There, the staff eventually told him they needed to reassess his priority status, a fact that frustrated him. "I threw my hands up," he told the