Lumber prices have more than tripled over the year amidst a pandemic-driven surge in new home construction and renovation.
LSU Forestry Economist Joseph Chang said new home construction is up about 30 percent from last year and there are more remodeling projects in the works as well.
“The improvements and remodeling started happening shortly after the pandemic,” said Chang “When people started working from home they started realizing they really wanted to have some extra space.”
Last year lumber prices were clocked at around 354 dollars per thousand feet of lumber. As of May 18
th that number is up to 1,264 dollars, down from the year’s high of 1,686 earlier this month.
Abbott: Texas schools cannot force students, staff to wear masks after June 4
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County officials have mixed reactions to Abbot s mask mandate decision
One of governor Abbott’s biggest in-state rivals is Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, who has rarely agreed with any decision the governor has made during the pandemic. It s a different story in neighboring Tarrant County.
DALLAS - Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a new executive order that will soon force Texas school districts to drop their mask requirements in the classroom.
The new order, which goes into effect on May 21, imposes a fine of up to $1,000 on any city, county, school district or other governmental entity still mandating masks.
“I heard a piercing loud scream,” recalled Mira Lewandowski. “It was bone-chilling.”
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It was 5 a.m. on March 5, 2018. She grabbed her glasses and went to look out her bedroom window facing the back of the Mississauga townhouse she shared with her daughter. Something dark and black lay in the parking lot.
In a panic, she called out for her daughter Alicia. The worried mom had begged her not to go out and meet her boyfriend and she had promised she would not.