and nimby is? not in my back yard and there's a whole host of acronyms that you can use. and then i actually was executive director for the national council on alcoholism and drug dependence for a couple of years. and all of that to say is that i focused a lot on the advocacy part of it and, and pushing the system if you will. and, and what i began to see, once i came on the inside with my current organization, is there is stigma and discrimination and biases within the field, probably just, if not to a larger degree than what you see outside. i think the whole issue of medication assisted treatment is one that, that we just don't want to talk about. i think some of it is, is that the workforce is basically trained in a certain modality or methodology or clinical approach and don't want to veer far from that approach. but in this new day and this new age, we're focusing more on the strength based approach, a person centered approach, more so than identifying the person by an action. and john, should we be looking internally first and, and if so, how do we approach the edu

. >> we are not a bunch of if nimby that don't want it in our back yard. want citizens to have the chicago's of where they want to put this slot casino. >>reeorter: now if the slot issue fails andarundle county, county, it could very well send the issue back to the drawing board delaying any parlor by several more months. for more on november mid election including the slots parlor go to our web site slash vote 2010. >>> after a rainy start we got an absolutely beautiful end to the work week and even better for the weekend. emily joins us now with the first look at the sky watch forecast. hello emily. >> hello jeff. nothing but great weather in our forecast for the weekend. wasn't the case earlier this week. high pressure in the mid 50's starting this week. end to the week. we are in the mid 70's and we will rise into the upper 70's by the weekend. leather lack at our hd radar right now as you can see nothing but a clear sky. baltimore dry the past couple days. not that way early this week but dry weather in store for the weekend and warm temperatures as w

and i think this neighborhood has led, not in nimby battles against

and i think this neighborhood has led, not in nimby battles against the housing -- affordable housingbut has led in the battle to build affordable housing on either surplus school sites or old disused sites. >> mainly one of the biggest issues in district five has been school closures. supervisor mirkarimi and residents have been outspoken of their criticism of the process. >> the school closure process i think was a travesty. it was last year, and then just very recently again, early 2006, another six were slated for closure, merger and/or relocation. that would have almost completely uprooted just about every school in our district, due to inclining enrollment. understandably there's budget shortfalls that require the board of education, in order to reconcile that dollar deficit. but what i am alarmed about is the disproportionate impact of school closures and mergers in communities of clr, particularly african-american, latino and working class communities. the kind of rye form i want to see happen is not only do we want to have a five year plan that speak to how are we going to sh

. >> we're not a bunch of nimby people who don't want it in our backyard. we want the citizens to have the choice of where they want to put the slots, the slots casino. >> in november, votersill decide whether to overturn zoning for the casino next to the rund mills mall. >> doug is here with the weather. >> i'm bored. with the weather out the so nice, i'm like, what can i do? okay. a little more sunshine. more nice temperatures. that's exactly what you'll be looking like over the next cole days. at least what you'll be looking . plenty of sunshine out there. and really, a nice night. temperature will begin to drop here but not too much. it is really going to be a nice evening to get out and about. temperature right now about 76 degrees under men of sun. the sun go down in the next uple minutes. at about seven miles per hour. all due to high pressure that is dominating the entire eastern portion of the country from washingtonll the way ck toward denver. just a huge area of high pressure bringing us the fantastic conditions that will remain through the weeke

and nimby is? not in my back yard and there's a whole host of acronyms that you can use. and then i actually was executive director for the national council on alcoholism and drug dependence for a couple of years. and all of that to say is that i focused a lot on the advocacy part of it and, and pushing the