Quick hits: Reaching rural students with school breakfast; mental health-care assistance hard to find in rural areas

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 heather.chapman@uky.edu.

A webinar discusses how to help mitigate rural hunger with school breakfast. Read more here.

Alabama's rural electric co-ops are way behind on the solar curve, says a new report. Read more here.

A podcast discusses how mental-health care is often difficult to access in rural areas, with a focus on Missouri. Read more here.

Journalist reports that the Sackler family took $10 billion out of Purdue Pharma before the company declared bankruptcy. Read more here.

Rolling Stone has a feature on high-tech Kentucky greenhouse company AppHarvest, which has lost $28.5 million so far. Read more here.

Rural residents with head and neck cancer are significantly more likely to die by suicide, a study has found. Read more here.