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Irish Examiner
20 hours ago
- Business
- Irish Examiner
186-acre Kerry farm: Quantity, quality, and swathes of charm
Located in a stunning part of the Kingdom of Kerry, a 15-minute drive from Caherciveen and Waterville, a 186-acre farm is new to the market with Caherciveen-based auctioneers The Property Shop. The holding is at Coomastow and has good access with a public road going through it and consists mainly of mountain grazing and lowlands. 'The land includes about 20 acres that you can cut silage from,' says selling agent James Hillis, 'which the current owners do every year – the lower parts of it.' Outbuildings There is a collection of outbuildings coming with the farm too. These include a six-bay shed with three bays slatted and the remaining three bays with a flat concrete floor. It offers the potential for accommodating 60 or more cattle, depending on age and size. There is also a cattle-handling yard equipped with a cattle rush, as well as a sheep-handling yard which includes a sheep run and dipping tank. Mr Hillis says: The outbuildings are in excellent condition. They're all being used. Aesthetically speaking, the property is very attractive with stunning views. 'They're outstanding views,' says James. 'You've got the ocean, you've got the mountains, you've got the valley… the whole thing.' The price guide quoted is €800,000. At €4,300/acre, it may well go some way north of that figure. The agents are also open to the property being sold in lots, depending on how the demand pans out over the coming period. Furthermore, there will be an opportunity to purchase a house separately.
National Geographic
10-07-2025
- National Geographic
Want to sleep in a caboose or near an active volcano? Visit these national parks.
Lava eruptions, ghost towns, stargazing beds, and horror films are features of the most unusual accommodations in or near U.S. national parks. Visitors to these 63 majestic parks can choose from a variety of traditional options, including convenient motels, cozy lodges, luxurious cabins, and modern hotels. Or they can add a curious twist to their wilderness holiday by staying in one of these six distinctive properties. Buffalo Creek Vacations, Clyde, North Carolina Great Smoky Mountains National Park Best for: Train spotters Cheryl Hillis grew up in a household stacked with model trains, which were her father's passion. To celebrate his legacy, her family converted four old American caboose railway cars into accommodations, alongside eight cabins. Set in a mountainous area of North Carolina, this 72-acre working ranch is home to bison, llamas, goats, and horses, and is just 13 miles east of the Cataloochee entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 'Since cabooses are slowly dying off, we felt as if it was also important to try to preserve the original features as much as possible,' says Hillis, founder of Buffalo Creek Vacations. 'The interiors were totally gutted out so they can be made into a modern, useful lodging. (But) we made sure to repaint the exterior in some of the original liveries, maintaining the historical paint schemes and numbers that the trains used to bear.' Each caboose is pet-friendly features a full kitchen, two TVs, a bathroom with heated floors, and a charcoal grill on its large deck, where guests can sit and watch the bison roam. Guests may also see wild deer, elk, black bears, and groundhogs while slowly driving this national park's Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. Good to know: North Carolina summers are hot and humid, so Hillis recommends guests cool down with a dip at nearby swimming holes. Standouts include Skinny Dip Falls, Sliding Rock, Midnight Hole, and Graveyard Fields. (6 alternatives to the most popular national park lodges) Open Sky Zion Resort, Virgin, Utah At night, guests staying at Open Sky Zion Resort near Zion National Park can gaze at the stars through the glass ceiling of their bedroom. Photograph by David Adam Elliott, Open Sky Zion Resort Zion National Park Best for: Stargazers Like sleeping inside an observatory, guests at Open Sky Zion Resort can study the twinkling universe while lying in bed, as they peer through a giant ceiling window of their room. Zion National Park thrills visitors by day, with its cinematic landscape of sandstone cliffs and canyons. After dark, meanwhile, it becomes an elite stargazing location. As a boy, Bygnal Dutson adored staring up at the cosmos, so he created this glamping resort on the southwest edge of the national park in Utah. 'The whole premise was to connect folks with nature without sacrificing the comforts of life,' says the Open Sky Zion Resort owner. This 80-acre, off-grid property has safari-style canvas cottages, each with plush linens, a Keurig coffee maker, indoor and outdoor showers, and a private fire pit. All complemented by the resort's chic, farm-to-table Black Sage restaurant. Good to know: August and September are Zion National Park's prime months for stargazing when the Milky Way is at its most visible, and the annual Perseid meteor shower creates a celestial spectacle. Bear in mind that, in summer, darkness doesn't fall here until about 10 p.m. Treehouse Mount Rainier , Ashford, Washington Located near Mt. Rainier National Park, Treehouse Mt. Rainier offers guests incredible views of Mount Rainier at sunset. Photograph by Mark Stone, National Geographic Image Collection Mount Rainier National Park Best for: A once-in-a-lifetime experience Attached to eight Douglas Fir trees and suspended 16 feet above the forest floor, these living quarters are a manifestation of Scott Atkins' childhood dreams. 'You feel as though you're on an old wooden ship', Atkins says of his unique creation, Treehouse Mount Rainier, the result of a lifetime of aspiration and 30 years of experience building treehouses. 'Because it's fully supported by trees, you have to allow for nature to do its thing, and trees grow and move in the wind over time,' he explains. 'The foundation hardware needs to slip to allow the tree movement, which can result in a popping sound.' This 420-square-foot treehouse with one bed is one of five rentable treehouses across the U.S. designed and built by Nelson Treehouse, a small American firm where Atkins is project manager. Generous windows provide striking forest views from every nook of this petite, yet well-equipped cabin. Modern comforts, such as Wi-Fi, air conditioning, a smart TV, and a fully equipped kitchen, seamlessly blend into its splendid wooden interior. And it is just seven miles west of Washington State's Mount Rainier National Park, renowned for its dramatic waterfalls, kaleidoscopic wildflowers, and the snow-flecked 14,410-foot peak of the same name as the park. Good to know: Treehouse Mount Rainier offers quick access to some of this national park's highlights, like glassy Reflection Lake, thunderous Comet Falls, and the memorable Van Trump hiking trail. (Escape the crowds at the lower 48's most remote national park) The Ahwahnee , Yosemite National Park, California Best for: Haunts and history buffs Nightmares, royalty, and war populate the strange back story of Yosemite National Park's The Ahwahnee. This lodge was built in 1927 from stone and wood to help it blend into its wild California surroundings, which feature 130-million-year-old granite cliffs and 3,000-year-old Giant Sequoia Trees. Since then, it has witnessed remarkable events and unexplained sightings. This historic hotel is renowned for its haunted tales of ghosts who refuse to leave, including Mary Curry Tressider, who played a pivotal role in the hotel's development. Guests may spot her folding up their clothes in one of the rooms on the sixth floor. Meanwhile, staff and guests have also spotted her husband, Donald Tressider, wandering the hotel's halls or heading to the kitchen for milk. And if you're staying on the third floor, beware of the empty rocking chair, moving on its own. It's said to be haunted by former President John F. Kennedy, who requested a rocker during his stay at the hotel. As guests marvel at Yosemite's famous Half Dome, through the lodge's floor-to-ceiling windows, they share a view once enjoyed by wounded naval officers. During World War II, the U.S. Navy converted the Ahwahnee into a convalescent hospital for injured sailors. And while resting in one of its 97 old-fashioned rooms, guests may feel as if they're a character in the 1980 horror classic, The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson. The film's main setting—a hotel flanked by peaks and forest—copied the Ahwahnee's interior. Good to know: Luxury travelers staying here can choose the lodge's opulent Queen's Room, with its giant four-poster bed, where the aforementioned British Monarch once stayed. Kennicott Glacier Lodge, Kennicott, Alaska The Kennicott Glacier Lodge can serve as a home base for visitors to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is the U.S.'s largest national park. Based in Alaska's largest ghost town, this lodge also provides access to the 3-mile round-trip Glacier Trail to see Root Glacier. Photograph Courtesy of Kennicott Glacier Lodge Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Best for: Icy wilderness immersionists Kenniccott Glacier Lodge is eerie, isolated, unique, and spectacular. This 43-room hotel is a replica of a historic copper mining building, based in Alaska's largest ghost town, overlooking a giant glacier, in the middle of the U.S.'s largest national park. Kennicott was abandoned for decades after its copper mine shut in 1938. Visitors can see about 40 restored heritage buildings, including mill structures, bunkhouses, a train depot, and a power plant, says Jill Simpson, CEO of the Alaska Travel Industry Association. 'Kennicott Mill Town feels like stepping back in time, with most of the original equipment and furnishings left behind to provide a glimpse into what life was like during that period,' she says. The lodge also celebrates this heritage by displaying numerous artifacts, historic photographs, and magazine articles from the mining era, according to the lodge's General Manager, Christina Kirkwood. However, its most significant selling point remains its extraordinary natural setting. 'The Lodge sits on the side of a mountain overlooking the 25-mile-long Kennicott Glacier and has views of 16,320-foot Mount Blackburn and the Chugach Mountains,' says Kirkwood. Good to know: The 3-mile round-trip Glacier Trail, which starts alongside this lodge, leads tourists to the vast and spectacular Root Glacier, where they can attach spiked crampons to their boots to walk on the ice. (Avoid crowds at the 10 least-visited U.S. National Parks) Volcano House, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park , Hawaii Best for: Adrenalin junkies Would you like lava with dinner? If so, ascend one of the world's most active volcanoes, Kīlauea, and check into Volcano House, a historic hotel located scarily near its summit. In June, Kilauea sprayed lava 1,000 feet into the air. This natural spectacle thrilled guests at Volcano House, where it was visible from the restaurant and some of its 33 rooms, due to the property's elevated perch on the rim of Kīlauea caldera, some 4,000 feet above sea level. While this may sound dangerous, the hotel is located far enough from Kīlauea's crater to have survived since its first iteration opened here in 1846. Owners rebuilt the current version of Volcano House in 1941 after extensive fire damage, caused not by flying molten rock but rather a simple accident. Now it offers cozy accommodations, a lounge, gift shop, snack bar, and most importantly, a convenient base for exploring Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. Located on the Big Island, this park rises to an elevation of 13,000 feet, and features a rainforest, alpine tundra, ash-draped deserts, and lava fields, all of which are connected to its two active volcanoes. Hiking trails lead through much of this natural splendor. However, park rangers advise visitors to be cautious of jagged volcanic rocks, unstable ground, concealed lava tubes, and hazardous gases such as sulfur dioxide, which can be particularly harmful to people with respiratory issues. Good to know: Volcano House guests can follow two driving routes, which reveal distinctive, volcanic scenery: Crater Rim Drive and Chain of Craters Road. Get maps and advice at the Kīlauea Visitor Center. Ronan O'Connell is an Australian journalist and photographer who shuttles between Ireland, Thailand, and Western Australia.
Buzz Feed
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Gen Z's WW3 Fashion Trends Taking Over TikTok
Hot Topic 🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Politics While President Donald Trump realizes that his Israel-Iran ceasefire agreement may not be as binding as he suspected ― both countries continue to fire missiles at each other ― Gen Z isn't wasting any time: On TikTok, 'WW3 fits' has been trending for days, with teens and twenty-somethings sharing the camo-heavy looks they jokingly say they'll wear in the event of a nuclear world war. Fun? 'First war kinda nervous,' Avery, a content creator, captioned a clip featuring her WW3 wardrobe, which includes a camouflage miniskirt and a bomber jacket. A few TikTokkers who are enlisted in the US Army joked that they already had their WWIII look picked out for them, flashing to closets full of fatigues. Ethan Hillis, 26, showed off his potential World War III looks in a video he was careful to caption: 'just a coping mechanism.' There's combat chic (a green trench coat), spy (a fedora and coat) and political ex-wife (basically MAGA mom cosplay). 'My WWIII fit is a bit of satire and a bit of style, think something like combat but make it couture,' Hillis told HuffPost in an email interview. 'I wanted to play with the idea of absurd preparedness while still looking fabulous,' he said. 'It felt like a funny and fashion-forward way to comment on the state of the world without diving into doom.' The videos are all soundtracked to Kesha's 2010 hit 'Blow' (Sample lyric: 'This place about to blow, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh'), which only adds to the absurdity. Most people joke along in the comment sections of the videos: 'This generation is so unserious. I love it,' one person wrote. 'This generation is only afraid of pregnancy,' another joked. Others found the brand of humor distasteful, as the conflict between Israel and Iran continues to unfold and airstrikes have left at least 28 people dead in Israel and hundreds in Iran. 'Lives are at stake,' one person wrote in the comments of Avery's video. 'The future of our world is unfolding in front of us, and YOU POST THIS.' Gen Z-ers we spoke to say they recognize the severity of what's happening and aren't trying to downplay it with their videos. 'The jokes are coming from a place of real exhaustion and awareness,' Hillis said. 'I don't think people realize how tuned in Gen Z is. All the irony and outfits are just the packaging. Underneath is real fear, and real care.' Christina Spah, a 26-year-old who posted a video of her WW3 fits ― looks that are ''apocalyptic chic' meets 'functional mom,'' she told HuffPost ― sees the jokes as a coping mechanism. 'As a military spouse and stay-at-home mom, I don't have much time to cry or panic in difficult times. I have to hold my head high and pretend everything is fine until I put my daughters to bed at night,' she said. 'In the meantime, finding humor about the prospect of another war in the Middle East allows me to feel any form of control in this awful situation.' Gen Z is used to using dark humor to get through hard times and trauma. There's little that Gen Z ― the demographic born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s ― won't meme-ify: On social media, everything from the the 2023 Titan submersible fiasco, to the 9/11 terror attacks, and celebrities' deaths and suicides (or being 'unalived,' as they prefer to say) ― have gotten the meme treatment. (Gen Z wasn't even alive when the twin towers fell. To be, though, comedians were cracking jokes about 9/11 no less than a few weeks later ― at least Gilbert Gottfried was.) They haven't experienced any comparable terrorist attacks but Gen Z has been through a lot themselves: A pandemic and lockdowns, the Great Recession for the older ones, school shootings and subsequent active shooter drills, protests over police brutality and political polarization that's damaged friendships and splintered families. Gen Z's supposed 'unseriousness' on social media may actually be a deeply layered response to chronic exposure to the news cycle, said Rana Bull, a therapist who works primarily with Gen Z, and the owner of Burrow and Bloom Therapy in Arizona. 'They've experienced a constant stream of secondhand trauma through social media,' Bull said. That affects us all, but Gen Z experienced it in their formative years. Secondhand trauma, or indirect exposure to distressing events, can desensitize people over time, especially when it's experienced repeatedly and without resolution, she said. 'For Gen Z, this has resulted in a sort of emotional callus; they're rarely surprised by negative news because, for them, it's not a rarity — it's the norm,' she said. There's also a neurological explanation for why Gen Z may appear disengaged. The brain's threat-response system is activated differently when a stressor is experienced directly versus indirectly, Bull explained. Social media creates a layer of emotional distance — what psychologists call psychological distancing — which makes it easier to compartmentalize what they're seeing. 'Humor, irony and absurdity become coping tools that help them regain a sense of control or reduce emotional overload,' she said. It's the same kind of dark humor used among first responders or health care workers, Bull said ― when something is too overwhelming to fully process, laughter is tension-breaking. 'So what might appear as flippancy or being 'unserious' is actually a form of emotional regulation and resilience, albeit one that can be easily misunderstood.' the therapist said. Sage Grazer, a therapist in Los Angeles, doesn't see Gen Z as particularly 'unserious' as a generation. Gen Z came of age online (three quarters of Gen Z spend most of their free time online, and many get their news from it, too), so it's little surprise they process their emotions there as well. But making arguably stupid jokes about incomprehensible geopolitical issues is a long tradition; consider how Charlie Chaplin used satire to defuse and address the looming threat of Adolf Hitler in 'The Great Dictator' in 1940. There's limitations to treating things glibly all the time, or without much reflection on why it's your reflex, Grazer noted. 'Humor can lighten the mood or offer a more positive perspective but it can also become a defense mechanism to shield yourself from harsh realities,'the therapist told HuffPost. 'While we're not meant to bear the emotional burden of all of the world's tragedy constantly, leaning on humor can encourage people to be complacent or callous,' she explained. 'I also see exposure to all of the jokes as contributing to a numbing or disconnection from the reality of what's going on in the world.' But given the unwieldy way President Trump and his war cabinet have communicated operations to the American public, an argument could be made that this conflict has an air of unseriousness, even if that's gravely not the case. And unlike millennials, who grew up seeing friends and family enlist for US invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gen Z has yet to fully experience the political culture of the US at war. (Granted, the US didn't end combat operations in Afghanistan until 2014, and the last United States military forces to depart the country did so on August 30, 2021.) An earnest question on Reddit's No Stupid Questions subreddit over the weekend is a testament to how unfamiliar Gen Z is with the prospect of warfare: 'What are you supposed to do if a war actually starts?' a person ― one who was clearly either not alive or else very young at the height of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars ― asked. 'Like, are we just supposed to keep going to work as normal and live like nothing is happening? Do jobs give time off if you're city is targeted?'
San Francisco Chronicle
28-04-2025
- Business
- San Francisco Chronicle
Meet the S.F. group begging the city to build more housing in its ‘rich' neighborhood
At a time when San Francisco neighborhood groups from the Marina to the Sunset to Fisherman's Wharf are fighting the city's plan to allow taller and denser housing, a group of residents in one city enclave have a different message to city planners: Please, upzone us. The organization D9 Neighbors for Housing has been lobbying to have Bernal Heights included in the rezoning that is aimed at producing housing areas in the city that have seen little development in the past 40 years and are considered 'high-resourced' in terms of household income, transit, schools, parks and retail. The group believes that the neighborhood's 40-foot building height limits and tight density controls have contributed to soaring housing prices and created an exclusive environment where the artists and activists and working-class families who defined Bernal for generations are shut out. D9 Neighbors argues that Bernal Heights, a lively hillside village with narrow streets, neighborhood schools, a library, spectacular hilltop parks, a strong retail corridor and a median home price of $1.7 million is nothing if not well-resourced. The neighborhood was left out of the 2010 Eastern Neighborhoods plan that resulted in thousands of new homes in the adjacent Mission, as well as Dogpatch and Potrero Hill. 'This is a resource-rich hill,' said Brendan Powell, a longtime Bernal homeowner who raised his family in the neighborhood. 'We are a rich enclave and we need to do our part. There is a clash between a lot of our neighbors' image of themselves and the reality of the wealth they have.' For the most part, the city's state-mandated 'expanding housing choice' plan doesn't include eastern parts of the city that have seen the preponderance of building in the past 25 years. Neighborhoods left off the rezoning map include the Mission, SoMa, Civic Center, Ingleside, Dogpatch, Hayes Valley, Western Addition, Bayview-Hunters Point and Potrero Hill. These are all areas that have either been part of past rezonings or do not qualify as 'high-resourced' under the Planning Department's criteria. Planning Director Rich Hillis said that 'Bernal is somewhat unique' in that it has not been included in any of the neighborhood plans that have allowed for more densities. While property values have soared, the neighborhood is still part of a census tract that doesn't qualify as high-resourced. 'You could probably make an argument that it's similar to well-resourced neighborhoods, but the way the data come together by census tract it ended up not being in a well-resourced area,' Hillis said Hillis acknowledged that the D9 group is unusual. 'This is the only time I have seen a group organizing to become part of the upzoning,' he said. He emphasized that the plan is still in flux with changes to the map likely to occur between now and January, when state law requires that the rezoning be complete. It's possible that the Planning Commission could decide to add a portion of Bernal in the rezoning. The state is requiring that the city rezone for 36,000 units of new housing, over half of which must be affordable to low- and middle-income families. In a city where nearly all new housing has been built in a handful of neighborhoods, Bernal Heights has been particularly immune from development. Between 2016 and 2021 it added 60 housing units, which equates to just 0.02% of housing built in the city. This is compared to 12,005 units in SoMa and 3,073 in Mission. From 2008 to 2023, Bernal averaged six net new units per year and among the city's districts it ranked last or near last in building housing almost every year, according to the city's annual Housing Inventory Reports. But the neighborhood hasn't always been so immune to development, particularly affordable housing. In the 1940s and '50s three public housing developments were built on the neighborhood's edge: 118 units at Holly Court, 160 at Bernal Dwellings and 151 at Alameda Apartments. All three of those projects have been renovated in recent years. And in recent years Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center has been aggressively looking to add to its affordable housing portfolio. The group is building 35 units at 3300 Mission St., which will replace the 3300 Club bar and residential hotel that was destroyed in a 2016 fire. In a statement, the group said the project would be completed in fall of 2026. The group recently won approvals for 70 units of disability-forward senior housing at 3333 Mission St., in the parking lot of a shuttered Big Lots store. 'We are actively pursuing a financing pathway for this project,' the group said. Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center has not taken a position on the rezoning. Both the 3300 and 3000 Mission projects were opposed by neighbors — something which members of D9 Neighbors said is all too common. The 3300 Mission project went through several owners and years of political negotiations before the final project was approved. It was opposed by condo owners in the adjacent market-rate building, which was on the site of a hardware store that was also destroyed in the fire. Powell, who managed a vintage car restoration shop, said the 3300 project, which will open in late 2026, should have been denser and taller and completed long ago. 'That fire was tragic, but how do we make the most of that situation, how do we turn that into something that helps San Francisco, that helps Bernal, helps Mission Street?' he said. 'I'd say taking 10 years to start building is not helping San Francisco — it certainly didn't help the people who were burned out in the fire.' But it's unclear if upzoning that stretch of Mission Street would have led to more units at either 3000 or 3333 Mission, according to Planning Department Chief of Staff Dan Sider. While both properties are zoned for 40 feet, state density bonuses allowed for another three floors of units and also for 'density decontrol,' meaning that the developer wasn't limited in how many units it could squeeze into the buildings. If the zoning had been 65 or 85 feet, the two projects could be taller, but that would have forced a steel-frame or concrete building type that is expensive and difficult to finance. The neighborhood's unique geography — steep hills, wild open spaces and some streets so narrow that two cars can't pass each other — offers limited opportunities. Bernal's vibrant main commercial corridor, Cortland Street, is narrow with few vacancies. There is the single-story Good Life grocery store that some have mentioned as a possible development project, with housing above the retailer. But that would force the temporary closure or relocation of the wildly popular grocer, which is not something likely to be embraced by the community or the business. Most of the large opportunity sites in Bernal are on the flats along Mission Street and eastern end of Cortland, near Bayshore Boulevard, where small-scale retail and housing gives way to larger commercial parcels like the Bare Bottle brewery and tasting room at 1525 Cortland. Powell said he could see a redevelopment project there that includes a new brewery with housing above. He said neighbors need to think inventively if they want to create a place where their kids can raise their families and older empty-nesters can downsize into smaller units. His generation of Bernal transplants — he has been in Bernal or nearby since the late 1990s — 'have a notion of Bernal when they arrived.' 'I don't think they recognize that the people who do the same work that they do, or the work they did in their 20s or 30s or 40s or whenever they were able to get on the ladder, couldn't get on that ladder today,' he said 'Part of being a sanctuary is giving people a place to be. If we don't have housing we can't be a sanctuary. We can't live up to the values we espouse.' But, some longtime Bernal renters see the potential upzoning as a threat. Stephen Torres, who works at two San Francisco legacy businesses — Flower Craft garden center on Bayshore Boulevard and Twin Peaks Tavern in the Castro — characterized the pro-upzoning group as the 'homeowners up on the hill' who are happy to advocate for more density in the flats along Mission Street which will not impact them very much. 'A lot of us resent the top down attitude,' he said. 'It's people who had enough money to buy a home on the hill saying, 'Oh, Bernal is such a well-resourced neighborhood,' and then the parts of the neighborhood they are identifying for density are down at the bottom of the hill.' Torres said the vital community of restaurant and entertainment establishments along Mission Street south of Cesar Chavez — like Royal Cuckoo, Pizzahacker and Club Malibu — could be lost to redevelopment if the strip is upzoned. 'It's going to trigger a speculative real estate rush,' he said. Still, the push to add housing in Bernal has struck a chord. A year after being revived the D9 Neighbors, which was originally started by the late Michael Nolan, has 369 members, according to the group. Its members turned out in droves to support both plans for 3000 and 3300 Mission, as well as the rezoning. D9 Neighbors organizer Ruth Ferguson is typical of the members who have been testifying at public meetings. She said she was lucky to be able to buy a home in Bernal but fears that her friends and her sister — who lives on her block and 'makes a great salary as a nurse at the VA' — will eventually be priced out. The hope that her parents, small business owners in Washington state, might be able to retire to San Francisco to be closer to their daughters is far-fetched. 'My parents who have had a small business and worked their asses off my whole life, there is no chance they could buy a place here and live near me and my sister,' she said Ferguson said the arguments against upzoning are 'rooted in progressive values and justice,' convictions she said she shares. But she said the refusal to open Bernal up to new development 'sequesters' high density in other less wealthy neighborhoods and creates 'affordable housing segregation.' 'People like to say that Bernal Heights has a rich history of working-class people and artists and it does, and that's amazing,' she said. 'But at a certain point the rhetoric is hypocritical. We should be thinking of building for the people who are here and won't be able to stay, the people who have been forced out and the people who will be here in the future.'
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Yahoo
Silver Alert issued for man missing out of McMinnville
WARREN COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued a Silver Alert for a man who is missing out of McMinnville. Gary Hillis, 68, was last seen Friday, wearing a dark-colored T-shirt and shorts. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall, 250 lbs, with gray hair and blue eyes. He is believed to be driving a white 2010 Mercury Milan with the Tennessee tag '861 BKZC.' The TBI said Hillis has a medical condition that may affect his ability to return safely without assistance. If you see Hillis, or have any information on his whereabouts, call the McMinnville Police Department at 931-668-7000 or TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND. 📲 Download the News 2 app to stay updated on the go.📧 Sign up for WKRN email alerts to have breaking news sent to your inbox.💻 for Nashville, TN and all of Middle Tennessee. This is a developing story. WKRN News 2 will continue to update this article as new information becomes available. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
