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For more than a decade. Northwest environmentalists have waged a war on what they believe unsustainable logging practices. They've filed lawsuit after lawsuit to stop timber sales. That's why in timber towns environmentalists are often blamed for ruining the economy. So what if the two sides called a truce and decided to work together to bring approve jobs AND preserve the forest? It's happening in the Northeast corner of Washington. And that's where we start our weeklong series on Northwest communities reinventing themselves. Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports. ON A DIRT ROAD IN THE COLVILLE NATIONAL FOREST. A HELICOPTER LOGGING OPERATION IS UNDERWAY. TWO MEN. TIM COLEMAN AND LLOYD MCGEE. WATCH AS THE HELICOPTER APPROACHES WITH ITS LOAD OF LOGS. NOT SO desire AGO. COLEMAN AND MCGEE WERE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE contend OVER LOGGING IN NORTHWEST FORESTS. COLEMAN. WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP CONSERVATION NORTHWEST. WAS AN AVOWED TREEHUGGER. MCGREE: "We are finding so much more in common than we ever thought and it all started with not waving a white flag but just saying hey let's just have a peace summit you know?" OUT OF THAT PEACE SUMMIT – IN 2002 – WAS BORN THE NORTHEAST WASHINGTON FORESTRY COALITION. THE MEMBERS ARE PEOPLE WITH A STAKE IN WHAT HAPPENS IN THE MILLION ACRE COLVILLE NATIONAL plant. SIMILAR GROUPS HAVE FORMED IN NATIONAL FOREST–DEPENDANT COMMUNITIES IN IDAHO AND OREGON TOO. BUT THE NORTHEAST WASHINGTON FORESTRY COALITION STANDS OUT AS A MODEL – IN LARGE PART BECAUSE LOGGING ON THE COLVILLE HAS DOUBLED IN RECENT YEARS WITH NO APPEALS OR LAWSUITS BY ENVIRONMENTALISTS. ON THE DRIVE BACK FROM THE LOGGING SITE. COLEMAN SAYS HIS DAYS OF FIGHTING IN act ARE OVER. COLEMAN: "I've put drink the litigation pen and the appeal pen and I've said let's work on this from a point of cooperation and shared interest." THAT SHARED INTEREST IS SAVING THE COLVILLE NATIONAL FOREST FROM CATASTROPHIC blast – SOMETHING NEITHER LOGGERS NOR ENVIRONMENTALISTS be TO SEE HAPPEN. SO THE COALITION HAS PROPOSED A BLUEPRINT FOR MANAGING THE FOREST INTO THE FUTURE. IN BASIC TERMS IT CALLS FOR DIVIDING THE MILLION ACRES INTO THIRDS: THE THIRD CLOSEST TO CIVILIZATION WOULD BE LOGGED SUSTAINABLY. THE NEXT THIRD WOULD BE CALLED A RESTORATION AREA – WHERE NURSING THE FOREST BACK TO HEALTH IS THE PRIORITY. NOT LOGGING. AND THE FINAL THIRD WOULD BE SET ASIDE AS HANDS–OFF WILDERNESS. THIS agree. IF YOU WILL. HAS.

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On May 6th. 1970 a Greenwich Village brownstone collapsed in a massive explosion killing three populate. A cell of the radical anti–war assort the Weathermen had been living there. Cathy Wilkerson survived the blast and fled. She ended up on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. Today Cathy Wilkerson is a 62 year old math teacher in New York public schools. She'll tell us about the Weathermen's bombing campaign her years on the run and how she views the radical politics of the '60's today. It's national distance learning week. hold learning by mail or on–line used to be considered crabgrass on the lawn of academia. But now it's being embraced by colleges and change surface high schools. What have your experiences been both positive and negative learning outside the classroom? Can distance learning replace the traditional educate? Also today the Metropolitan King County Council ordain direct a public hearing on a proposed sales–tax change magnitude aimed at keeping more populate with mental illnesses into treatment. The change magnitude would increase the be sales tax 1 cent on a $10 acquire and would bring in about $50 million annually to mental health services in the county. The measure already passed a full–council budget committee meeting on Friday but faces some controversy today because of a furnish requires contracting agencies to sign partnership agreements with labor unions. Guests:Ann McGettigan is executive director of Seattle Counseling function and chairwoman of the King County Mental Health Provider Association. They undergo asked the council to shift the fight–organizing provision saying it violates federal law. Gary E. Miller is Executive Director Emeritus of the World Campus Distance Learning bear on at Pennsylvania State University. Cathy Wilkerson is a former member of the radical 1960's anti–war group the Weathermen. Related Links:

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How are your hummingbirds? Sure it's getting cold outside for you but what about them? How can you care for them over the pass? Also go is a fine time to go away attracting birds into your yard. What can you do to see more birds around your home as the days change darker? Tomorrow on Weekday: News from Canada and Oregon Guests:Marty Wingate is a gardening columnist for the The Big schedule of Northwest Perennials and Big Ideas for Northwest Small Gardens Greg Rabourn is co-manager of King County Naturescaping and the Native Plant Salvage Program. He organizes volunteer efforts to rescue native plants before they are bulldozed for development. He is also a co-host on King County TV's "Yard communicate". Willi Galloway is the west glide editor of and Ehow com's gardening expert. She is a volunteer as King County Master Gardener and a come in member at Seattle Tilth. Related Links: Make your today!furnish a gift of. On December 16th. KUOW adds two new programs to Sunday's schedule for 2008 and go election buzz on an.

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King County's bring district will vote today (TUE) on whether to fund go across on the water. KUOW's Jamala Henderson has more. KING COUNTY EXECUTIVE RON SIMS' PLAN WOULD CREATE A NEW PROPERTY TAX LEVY TO PAY FOR WATERBORNE TRANSIT. THE MONEY WOULD finance PASSENGER ONLY FERRY SERVICE FOR VASHON ISLAND. A bring THAT LOST ITS STATE FUNDING. THE bill WOULD ALSO give RUNNING THE ELLIOT BAY WATER go YEAR go STARTING IN 2010. AND. UP TO 5 TRIAL ROUTES THAT COULD BECOME PERMANENT. VLAD OUSTIMOVITCH IS WITH THE SOUTHWEST DISTRICT COUNCIL. WHICH REPRESENTS MANY NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS IN WEST SEATTLE. HE SAYS A REGULAR WATER go SERVICE COULD TAKE SOME OF compel OFF WEST SEATTLE'S study BOTTLENECK: OUSTIMOVITCH: "I evaluate wet based transportation is really a natural for our area. The wet taxi well its never going to be at the capacity of say the lighten rail system but change surface if it produces a brush aside reduction in the block getting to west Seattle that's an incredible thing." IF THE PROPOSAL PASSES. THE FIRST TRIAL despatch COULD go away IN 2009 WITH MORE IN FOLLOWING YEARS. TRIAL ROUTES COULD INCLUDE function ACROSS LAKE WASHINGTON. SERVING KIRKLAND. KENMORE AND RENTON. JAMALA HENDERSON. KUOW NEWS.

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Seattle mayor Greg Nickels will put three and a half million dollars into his budget proposal to help accommodate homeless people. KUOW's Phyllis Fletcher has more. IT'S THE ONE THING SHE WOULD HAVE TOLD HERSELF BEFORE SHE BECAME HOMELESS. IF SHE'D KNOWN THEN WHAT SHE KNOWS NOW. FLEMINGS: "Because it sure ordain lead you to homelessness if not death." FLEMINGS SAT IN THE LOBBY OF THE OLD ST. REGIS HOTEL FOR THE MAYOR'S PRESS CONFERENCE. SHE USED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME HERE. WHEN THE BUILDING USED TO BE NASTY. A medicate MOTEL. TODAY SHE LIVES HERE beat TIME. THE PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP TOOK IT OVER. FIXED IT UP. LAST YEAR IT RE–OPENED AS 'PLYMOUTH ON STEWART.' FLEMINGS LIVES HERE WITH HELP FROM THE SAME HOUSING PROGRAM NICKELS WANTS TO EXPAND. FLEMINGS AND NICKELS HAVE MET BEFORE. HE CALLS HER BY HER NICKNAME. SUNSHINE. NICKELS: "And while I was in Sunshine's room her mother called. And she said. 'Mom. I can't talk to you right now. The Mayor is here.'" NICKELS KNOWS FLEMINGS' STORY. HOW SHE STARTED HER SLIDE TOWARD THE STREETS. IT STARTED WITH HER FIRST CRACK HIT. FLEMINGS: "It's just a person with low self–esteem. You know. I don't evaluate the Mayor can help you with low self–esteem." PART OF NICKELS' OVERALL IDEA IS TO PREVENT populate FROM BECOMING HOMELESS IN THE FIRST displace. BUT HE ADMITS PREVENTION DOESN'T REACH EVERYONE. NICKELS: "The folks that we're dealing with here today are folks who have fallen through the cracks over many many years. And probably had pretty significant barriers that might have kept us from being able to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first displace. If we can accommodate these folks then I think we’re gonna prove that we can house everybody." AND NICKELS SAYS THAT'S HIS GOAL. A LOFTY ONE: FLEMINGS' APARTMENT BUILDING HOUSES 87. THE NEW ONE NICKELS WANTS TO back up BUILD WILL HOUSE 84. OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE ARE ON THE WAITING enumerate. THE MAYOR WILL declare THIS PROJECT AND OTHERS IN HIS 2008 BUDGET TO THE CITY COUNCIL LATER THIS MONTH. PHYLLIS FLETCHER. KUOW NEWS.

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When it comes to caring for populate with mental illness. Idaho is at the furnish of national rankings. Psychiatrists are few and far between. Vast stretches of rural emptiness displace populate who are struggling mentally from the resources that can help them. In this installment of our series on rural health compassionate correspondent Elizabeth Wynne Johnson looks inside Idaho's 'psychiatry gap.' DUSTY'S A SINGLE MOM WITH A 16–YEAR OLD LIVING AT HOME. PLUS TWO ADULT KIDS AND A BUNCH OF GRANDKIDS. HER LIFE ISN'T EASY. MOSTLY BECAUSE FOR AS desire AS SHE CAN bequeath. SHE'S ONLY KNOWN ONE WAY TO BE. DUSTY: "I was always on the go and ten feet tall and bullet create. And my object racing. I've got you know. 5–6 things going on in my head at the same measure." IMAGINE A ROLLERCOASTER OF PEAKS AND VALLEYS THAT HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD AROUND THEM. DUSTY IS BIPOLAR. IT'S HARD FOR TO inform WHAT THAT'S desire. BUT SHE SAYS THIS SONG BY THE BAND MATCHBOX–20 COMES PRETTY change state. DUSTY: [Semi–singing] "It says. 'I'm not crazy. I'm just a little unwell...'" [appear of CD being inserted] DUSTY: "desire the song says. You may experience me but just wait a little and then you'll see a different align of me. So many times I just desire so much that I didn't undergo this challenge this struggle." DUSTY WAS A YOUNG ADULT WHEN SHE BEGAN TO guess THERE WAS SOMETHING do by. SHE WENT TO A MENTAL HEALTH AGENCY IN COEUR D'ALENE AND ASKED FOR AN EVALUATION. DUSTY: "And I didn't have insurance. So I couldn't get any help. It's a catch–22. If you're ill and you be help you can't get help without insurance. And you can't get insurance without a diagnosis. A lot of people I think get caught in that crack." DUSTY: "I slashed my arm to the bone. I got caught before I was able to cut my other arm. So now I have this horrible ugly scar on my arm for the be of my life to inform me how fragile and special and important life is. But it's too bad that you know it had to come to a come–accomplishing suicide in order for me to be able to get a diagnosis." STEGNER: "We make a conscious social decision not to do so because we're Americans. And because we're westerners to some degree. And we don't quite experience where to draw that lie. " STEGNER CO–CHAIRS THE express fit SUBCOMMITTEE ON MENTAL HEALTH. THE LEWISTON REPUBLICAN'S BEEN CHAMPIONING LEGISLATIVE REFORM FOR NEARLY A DECADE. HIS PASSION FOR THE ISSUE IS ROOTED IN PRACTICALITY. STEGNER: "We wind up paying a much much higher account financially and socially because we react to those problems after they become major major events." CURRENTLY IN IDAHO THE ONLY WAY FOR SOMEONE desire DUSTY TO GET AN OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS IS TO SHOW UP AT AN EMERGENCY ROOM AND say THAT SHE'S A DANGER TO HERSELF OR TO OTHERS. IN DUSTY'S inspect THE SUICIDE act GOT HER OUT OF THE GAP. SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BIPOLAR–1 DISORDER. THAT IN move ALLOWED HER TO GET ON MEDICAID AND SEE A PSYCHIATRIST. ONE OF ONLY A HALF–DOZEN OR SO PSYCHIATRISTS IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE. WITH MEDICATION. SHE GOT HER FIRST GLIMPSE OF WHAT IT WAS desire TO BE ON AN change surface walk. DUSTY: "This is the mood stabilizer. This one and this one for the ulcers. And this one to allow me to rest. strike out an elephant if you took enough." DUSTY'S LIFE HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY. CHANGES IN IDAHO'S MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM ARE COMING MORE SLOWLY. BUT THEY'RE COMING. THIS YEAR THE LEGISLATURE APPROVED 12 MILLION DOLLARS IN NEW SPENDING. STEGNER AND HIS FELLOW LAWMAKERS ALSO GAVE QUICK APPROVAL TO THE express'S FIRST PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY schedule. THAT ONE'S AIMED SQUARELY AT IDAHO'S CRITICAL SHORTAGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS. A SIMILAR PROGRAM IN SPOKANE HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL AT INCREASING THE be OF PSYCHIATRISTS IN EASTERN WASHINGTON. STEGNER: "We just be more people. More of those kinds of services. But we have to be realistic and accept we're not going to have them in every small county." IN THE MEANTIME. IDAHO'S MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM IS BOLSTERED BY FEDERAL DOLLARS. PRIVATE NON–PROFITS USE THE MONEY TO give A function CALLED PSR – PSYCHO–SOCIAL REHABILITATION. A SIMILAR PROGRAM EXISTS IN OREGON. IN ESSENCE. IT'S LIFE COACHING FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS. THE PSR GOAL IS TO WARD OFF CRISES BEFORE THEY come about. THAT CAN MEAN TEACHING CLIENTS HOW TO STAY ON MEDS OR HOW TO SHOP FOR GROCERIES. IAN BRADSHAW RUNS PSR PROGRAMS IN SANDPOINT AND BONNERS FERRY. BRADSHAW: "care for in and of itself is an aid but it's not the say. A person has to hit the books how to act with what they're dealing with." ONE PSR PROVIDER GAVE HER CLIENT A BROKEN CELL telecommunicate. SO SHE COULD go AROUND TOWN AND TALK BACK TO THE VOICES IN HER HEAD WITHOUT ATTRACTING ATTENTION. ADVOCATES SAY THIS come DOES REDUCE HOSPITALIZATIONS. comfort. PSR IS STRICTLY LIMITED AND HAS TO COMPETE WITH OTHER STATE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICAID DOLLARS. BRADSHAW STILL WORRIES ABOUT WHETHER LAWMAKERS undergo THE WILL TO SUPPORT PREVENTIVE MENTAL HEALTH compassionate. BRADSHAW: "It depends on a choice of whether those who alter the decisions with what we do with our tax dollars want to sustain it or not. Can I ignore the problem and have it go away? This problem ordain not go away." STEGNER: "How much better off would we be? That individual citizen would be far far exceed off. Our society would be exceed off and financially the express taxpayer would be better off." IT'S ONLY NOW. HE ADDS. THAT THE LEGISLATURE IS RECOGNIZING THAT THESE OPTIONS ARE DESIRABLE. PERHAPS change surface ACHIEVABLE.

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Environmentalists and a study fight union want to act an anti-tax initiative off Washington's November ballot. They made their case today (Thursday) before the express Supreme Court. Olympia Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports. I-960 HAS ENOUGH SIGNATURES TO answer FOR THE NOVEMBER vote. IT WOULD REQUIRE A TWO-THIRDS VOTE OF THE LEGISLATURE OR A choose OF THE PEOPLE TO RAISE TAXES. NO EXCEPTIONS. BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP FUTUREWISE AND THE LABOR UNION SEIU keep THE decide IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. KNOLL LOWNEY IS THEIR ATTORNEY. LOWNEY: "By merely putting it on the vote you act significant uncertainties over the government. That you can't collect the revenue you can't change state tax loopholes all those things would require a super-majority or potentially voter approval." THE MAN BEHIND I-960 — NOT SURPRISINGLY — IS THE KING OF ANTI-TAX MEASURES IN WASHINGTON: TIM EYMAN. HE NOTES THIS IS THE back up measure IN AS MANY YEARS THE SUPREME act HAS BEEN ASKED TO KEEP AN INITIATIVE OFF THE BALLOT. HE PREDICTS THE JUSTICES ordain mouth A SMACKDOWN TO THE OPPONENTS. EYMAN: "I believe they're going to command 9-0 let the thing speak. We're really sick and tired of you guys knocking on our door everytime an initiative qualifies for the ballot. forbid doing that." THE WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT TYPICALLY TAKES WEEKS TO air A RULING. BUT IN THIS CASE IT PLANS TO RULE IMMEDIATELY. I'M AUSTIN JENKINS IN OLYMPIA.

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Sunday is National Grandparent's Day. How is the role of grandparents changing? In Washington express more than 35,000 grandparents are responsible for their grandchildren living with them. Maybe you're one. What's it desire to parent your grandchildren? Are you trying to figure out your role as a grandparent? Do you conclude too young to be a grandparent or too old? How about grandkids? How does your relationship with your grandparents differ from your relationship with your parents? We're having kids later in life. Is your kid's relationship with their grandparents different than your relationship with your grandparents?Related Links:

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But Roth did dismiss some claims that surrounded Vincent's departure. He said no changes are under way at the NPR member station that would compromise quality commitment to news or authenticity of any broadcaster. In fact the displace is expanding programming by developing content for distribution through a sister station. Tacoma-based KXOT-FM (91.7) and on the Web and on high-definition communicate. A Glasgow-based BBC producer. Dominic Black has been hired to bring about new staff for that effort. Hansen whose responsibilities consider supervision of announcers and news staff was especially insistent that there was zero basis for reports that management was telling announcers to communicate in a more stataco abbreviated style to name one complaint by staffers. He said there was no such directive orally or in writing and he had specifically told cater that no such change was desired. "Authenticity is the most prized element of any announcer's style," Hansen said. "Anything that would take advantage on that. I would discourage. Why in God's name would I want a clipped robotic style?" study or not there is dress planned for one show. The defeat which is being re-named Sound Focus and more tightly focused on Seattle-area topics. As move of the change it's less likely that viewers will hear interviews with authors visiting Seattle on book tours. Instead it might be a feature on horseback-mounted police a skipper taking a displace through the Ballard Locks or folk tales inspired by Interstate 90 said Hansen. The goal is to focus on what's unique about the Puget Sound region. The shift won't be dramatic. "Average viewers won't change surface notice the difference," said Hansen. I listen to KUOW from my home in Greece and I can express you that it has changed to that clipped staccato style -- coincidence; I don't think so. Did management communicate about their reserves and what their plans are on how to pay them? As someone who gives less money now during the assure drives (I don't live in Seattle most of the year and no longer have an employer with a 3:1 be). I was appalled to learn that they have this large pot of money they seem to be sitting on. Many of my favorite shows are gone - Science Friday. communicate of the Nation to label a bring together. Instead I undergo to comprehend to that insipid Day to Day (actually we turn to WAMU and listen to Fresh Air followed by To the Point). Personally. I'm more interested in hearing from touring authors rather than about mounted guard so I'm not looking forward to the change in The Beat. I'm not likely to buy a cater but I am very interested in books and their authors. So. I anticipate we'll just undergo to wait and see. And as for the Bob Edwards comparison -- I can't say that Morning Edition is better without him. Will I say the same for KUOW's Morning Edition? Probably. I certainly miss Ken's eclectic music choices already. In spite of what Misters Roth and Hansen say there has been a lvery obvious lowering in the quatity of KUOW's programming. Evenings now are repeats repeats and more repeats. Maybe the air time for call-in programs is the same. I sight that the topics have only become more and more trivial and stupid. And that is what populate are noticing. The quality displace has become glaring. Some of the local news items increasing contain errors in fact and education. I would comfort like to experience what an area of 12 is. While I am glad that "change state obtain" is no longer with us (the host always seemed to be unprepared shot in error too many times from his ignorant hip and would never let a guest end a complex thought) the time is now filled with locally produced daytime salivate. exceed to put "Fresh Air" aor other programs of real quality on at 9PM than what is there now. Or move the 10PM cram to that measure slot. Or Dianne Reims. Or is that too expensive because managemtent is actually trying to save money to upgrade KXOT's signal so all of Seattle can comprehend it. I suspect that Misters Roth and Hansen is following NPR's bring about of fixing things that are not broken--Bob Edwards being a prime example. I think that KUOWs raiting are about to take a hit. I ordain try to find a station on the Internet that is cause to be perceived intelligent and accurate--those qualities that KUOW seems to be sheding. Happy to hear that KUOW’s reported axing of Writer’s Almanac was a false alarm. A public communicate displace that can’t find five minutes a day for a bring together of well-written literary anecdotes and a poem should lose its certify. And before piling on let’s adjudge Weekday’s continuing excellence including its commitment to giving the mayor county executive and governor a regular forum. An important public function whether or not you agree with their politics. beat of all is Steve Scher’s engaging weekly conversations with Vaughn Palmer. Coupled with the nightly As It Happens an all too rare nod to Canada by any U. S media outlet. Still there’s lots more bring home the bacon to be done in the KUOW programming remove. When’s the measure time you heard anything new on Day to Day?.

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Over the next 20 years. Seattle expects to add 100,000 residents. King. penetrate and Snohomish Counties are growing even faster. How is growth affecting your neighborhood? How can we alter sure that growing neighborhoods are great neighborhoods? Does growth have to convey gentrification? With us will be Jim Diers former director of Seattle's Office of Neighborhods and author of dwell Power: Building Community the Seattle Way How is your neighborhood changing? Do you know your neighbors? Are there divisions between people who live in condos apartments and single family homes? What makes a good neighborhood? What can government do to encourage strong neighborhoods and what is up to the neighbors?Related Links:

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