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Friday, April 03, 2020

Quick hits: Simple Gifts from their living rooms; virus hitting fracking, coal hard; state takes bankrupt rural hospital

Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at heather.chapman@uky.edu.

The pandemic is hitting the American coal industry hard. Read more here.

Singer/songwriter John Prine is still hospitalized battling covid-19, and his wife reports that he has pneumonia in both lungs. Read more here.

Washington state commandeers a bankrupt rural hospital. Read more here.

Trump administration details guidelines for small-business loans. Read more here.

Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra play Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring from their living rooms. Watch it here.

Could the coronavirus pandemic, and the related oil war, spell the end of horizontal hydraulic fracturing as we know it? Read more here.

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