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Dr. Rachel Levine’s historic appointment to the Biden administration, explained Vox.com 1/22/2021 Katelyn Burns © Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images Rachel Levine, physician general for the state of Pennsylvania, dines with her mother Lillian Levine on May 16, 2016, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, Joe Biden, then president-elect, nominated Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as the new assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Levine’s nomination is historic: If confirmed by t...

January 19, 2021 at 9:14 am EST | by Chris Johnson Rachel Levine tapped to become first out transgender Senate-confirmed official Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Rachel Levine has been nominated to become assistant secretary of health. (File photo courtesy of the Office of Governor Tom Wolf) Rachel Levine, who as Pennsylvania secretary of health guided her state through the coronavirus pandemic, has been tapped to become assistant secretary for health under the Biden administration, setting her up to become the first openly transgender U.S. Senate-confirmed federal official. The Biden tran...

Barstow Community College will hold a winter clothing giveaway from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. The event is open to current students.

Nothing that is said today can change the fate of Amanda Simpson, Savannah Hall, Rowen Von Niederhausern and Serena Wiebe. In the words of the province’s Representative for Children and Youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond – the system failed them. However, as Turpel-Lafond stressed throughout her report on the deaths of those four children, simple finger pointing is not what the report is about. The report is about identifying deficiencies in the child welfare system and then enacting change. The report is also about praising the front-line social workers who have a truly stressful and, at ti...

Event scheduled for 2 to 5 p.m. in campus' upper parking lot Staff Reports In its continued efforts to fight food insecurity on campus, Barstow Community College will hold a holiday meal giveaway on Thursday for 100 currently enrolled students. “With the amount of students who showed up for the Thanksgiving meal, we knew we had to do all that we could to provide and increase the number of meals for the (upcoming) holiday,” said BCC spokesperson Amanda Simpson. The giveaway is a drive-thru event scheduled for 2 to 5 p.m. in the upper parking lot of the BCC campus.  The BCC Food Pantry,...