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The Short List   Saturday, October 22 Good morning, USA TODAY readers! I'm John Riley, and this is The Short List weekend edition✨, where we give props to some of the week's most compelling journalism.👏 Why not catch up on the news while you're planning your pumpkin-carving party?🎃 Here we go: Lessons from Hurricane Ian ⛈️Florida residents know it's when, not if, the next one strikes. In Lee County alone where Hurricane Ian made landfall, more than 5,000 homes were destroyed, and nearly 42,500 others were damaged. And yet the word on everyone's lips, from President Joe Biden to Gov. Ron DeSantis: rebuild. Experts again are calling for changes, such as building farther away from the coasts, requiring higher elevations for foundations, and restoring natural defenses against storm surges and flooding, such as planting mangrove trees and providing more green space instead of paved lots.  It's a task that's easier said than done.  • Why was Ian so destructive: These 3 factors proved critical Schools caught in legal crossfire 🏫Public schools and colleges that receive federal funding – which is nearly all of them – now find themselves caught between new state laws banning abortion and stripping the rights of students who are transgender and nonbinary, and a federal law that bans sex-based discrimination in schools.  The Education Department is warning schools that some of the state laws local officials must uphold conflict with their legal obligations to Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination. Student protesters and other groups have come out to protest state-level actions in Virginia, Idaho and Florida that may violate the federal law. The call for NFL diversity gets louder 🏈Staying silent was no longer an option. At the NFL's annual meeting in March, several head coaches – including Pete Carroll, John Harbaugh, Frank Reich and Andy Reid – urged owners to step up the pace on hiring Black coaches. "We were speaking from our hearts. And what that was, was, 'Listen, we need to see some results,'" the Indianapolis Colts' Frank Reich told USA TODAY Sports. Despite the NFL's Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for the positions of head coach, coordinator, quarterbacks coach, only two of the 10 head coach openings this last offseason were filled by Black coaches. • NFL Coaches Project: Demographic data for NFL coaches at every level There are more great reads below.👇 See you next week! Newest National Park Service site tells a different segregation story From 1909 until 1965, the Blackwell School was a segregated school for children of Mexican descent in Marfa, Texas. What has Gov. Abbott done about the six mass shootings on his watch? How the pandemic and war reshuffled the prices Americans are paying Fierce fight over curriculum may usher in new era of segregated... Climate change is on the ballot in the midterm elections: What's at... Did Mar-a-Lago docs put foreign agents at risk? Review seeks to find... KC cops called reports of missing women 'unfounded'. Then 1 turned up. As job market cools, will bosses force workers back to the office? Soccer owner championed women's game. Now, he's pressured to sell... Speed limits in the ocean? Massive ships are threatening whales.   Problem viewing email? View in browser Unsubscribe • Manage Newsletters • Terms of Service • Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights • Privacy Notice • Do Not Sell My Info/Cookie Policy • Feedback © 2022 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22102