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Moline’s TPQC featured in Time article about gender-affirming care and insurance: The Project of the Quad Cities, which began offering gender-affirming care for youth in September, shares with Time Magazine the soaring costs of malpractice insurance in light of growing bans nationwide on gender-affirming care for youth. Read the article here.

Byron Allen seeks to buy BET: The entertainment mogul made a $3.5 billion offer for the BET Media Group that also includes VH-1. Allen’s offer is the second he’s made this year and is inspired this time, The Deadline reports, by Paramount’s plans to sell the Black-identified media company to an investor group.

Iowa schools striving to meet new book ban deadline: “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” “Handmaid’s Tale,” and “Ulysses” are among the books already being removed from Iowa public school libraries as districts try to comply by the new year with a new state law that “bans any books in school libraries that describe or visually depict a sex act,” reports KCRG.

(photo credit: The Project of the Quad Cities landing page for gender-affirming care for youth)