Quick hits: why farmers support Trump, Don Blankenship running for president; Calif. college offers wildfire classes - Entrepreneur Generations

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.

California college offers class to teach rural homeowners how to prepare for and cope with wildfires. https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2019/11/11/college-siskiyous-offers-class-rural-homeowners-after-historic-wildfires-camp-fire/2522530001/

An online class is offered for rural librarians: http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2019/11/ala-announces-libraries-transforming-communities-community-engagement-initiative

Former coal baron Don Blankenship announced he's running for president as a Constitution Party candidate. He placed a distant third in the Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia in 2018 after a campaign in which he attempted to portray himself as "Trumpier than Trump." Read more here.

Rural America needs more than better broadband access to address its problems, Rick Dalton writes for the High Plains Journal.

"Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, said Catholic clergy and lay leaders can play a role in bringing together people along the rural-urban divide to build understanding of the need for sensible policies that can end the scourge of gun violence," Dennis Sadowski reports for Catholic News Service.

There are three reasons Midwest farmers hurt by the U.S.-China trade war still support President Trump, write a trio of Iowa State University ag professors. Read more here.

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