Quick hits: Submissions for SEJ awards due April 24; profile on Ken Ward Jr; Amtrak gets $1 billion in pandemic aid - 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.

The submission deadline for the Society of Environmental Journalists' 2020 Awards is April 24. Read more here.

For rural Texas hospitals, beating coronavirus is personal: 'We feel responsible for one another.' Read more here.

E&E News profiles Gish Award winner Ken Ward Jr. on covering coal with 'sustained outrage.' Read more here.

Profit over people: Inside an Appalachian struggle to save rural healthcare. Read more here.

'We Belong to Each Other': Appalachian youth build support amid pandemic uncertainty. Read more here.

Florida issues 32,000 laptops to rural school districts amid spread of covid-19. Read more here.

10 pioneer-era apple types thought extinct found in US West. Read more here.

U.S. railroad Amtrak receives $1 billion in emergency funding. Read more here.

Pandemic hits Navajo Nation hard. Read more here.

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