Guest editorial: For sake of wildlife, exit lockdown with care
Tiffany Yap
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The odds are stacked against mountain lions in California. In a state with a landscape fractured by roads and riddled with rat poison, it’s hard out there for a puma.
Approximately 100 California mountain lions die every year from collisions with cars. Some are killed upon impact and others die later from their injuries or their inability to find food after being struck.
When the pandemic hit, The Ventura County Star reported that such collisions plunged. Traffic fell significantly following initial stay-at-home orders, leading to a 58% drop in mountain lion deaths, according to the UC Davis Road Ecology Center.
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Covid Has Made Orlando Less Affordable Than San Francisco
Justin Fox, Bloomberg
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the price of housing has risen in some relatively cheap places in the U.S. and fallen in some expensive ones. These dynamics were already apparent before covid-19, as superstar cities in the U.S. and abroad began to price themselves out of reach for many of the workers who kept them going. Then came a contagious disease that (1) temporarily shut down most of the things that make superstar cities attractive and (2) led employers to experiment with remote work on an unprecedented scale, making it easier to disconnect superstar-city jobs from superstar-city real estate prices.