Mac Jones said after the New England Patriots' Week 13 loss to the Buffalo Bills that he wanted to be coached harder. But during the second-year quarterback's tumultuous season, coaches reportedly were told to back off.
FOX Sports' Henry McKenna reports Patriots coaches "were instructed not to be too hard on Jones in an effort to protect him from being too critical of himself." A team source also told McKenna that "there was an issue in 2021 with Jones struggling after getting yelled at."
The 2022 season was a challenging one both physically and mentally for Jones. The 24-year-old was forced to adjust to a new offense coached by Matt Patricia and Joe Judge instead of Josh McDaniels. In Week 3, he sustained a high ankle sprain that kept him out the next three weeks and sparked Zappe Fever. Rookie backup QB Bailey Zappe won fans over by leading the Patriots to consecutive wins over the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns.
When Jones returned from injury in Week 7, he struggled while fans at Gillette Stadium chanted "We Want Zappe." Bill Belichick pulled Jones after three drives and went with Zappe the rest of the way.
Jones held on to the starting job from there, but his frustrations boiled over late in the season. On multiple occasions, Jones was caught on the television broadcast wearing his emotions on his sleeve. The season ended on a sour note as the Patriots fell to the Bills and missed the playoffs for the second time in three years.
According to McKenna, the team source suggested "in hindsight, it might have been a mistake to go easy on the quarterback." The Patriots already have taken a major step to remedy that mistake by hiring Bill O'Brien as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
"I think he's the future of New England," McCourty said on NFL Network. "Any doubts, I think you’re wrong if you don’t think that. I think he's the future. He’s in that building right now doing different things, working with guys, talking to guys; that’s what he wants. He wants to be that quarterback."
With better -- and more strict -- coaching, Jones will look to reestablish himself as one of the top young QBs in the league. Year 3 will be a pivotal season for Jones as he'll be eligible for a contract extension after the 2023 season, and the Patriots will have until May 2024 to pick up his fifth-year option.
February 28, 2023 at 12:24PM
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"We are totally connected to the quarterbacks that are coming out," Carroll said. "This is a really huge opportunity for us. It's a rare opportunity. We've been drafting in the low 20s for such a long time you just don't get the chance at these guys. We are deeply involved with all that."
Or as Schneider put it, the Seahawks would consider a quarterback in the first round, even after signing Smith, "Because they don't grow on trees. It's very hard. It's probably the hardest position to acquire a talent, a guy that everybody feels very confident in."
In other words, it's really difficult to find elite quarterbacks in the NFL, and it's even harder if, as has been the case for the Seahawks, you almost never pick near the top of the first round. But thanks to the trade that sent Russell Wilson to Denver, the Seahawks have a Top 5 pick for the first time under Carroll and Schneider, so if they really think a quarterback is worth of that pick, they'd strongly consider it even if they also re-sign Smith.
As for the ongoing negotiations with Smith, Schneider said, "I would say positive" when asked to characterize things.
"All these negotiations, some go a little bit faster than others," he said. "Usually when you're talking about larger numbers, they take a little bit more time."
Said Carroll, "We're working it, the back and forth is all ongoing. How's it going? I think it's going to go the right direction. We've got to get it done."
Asked if the sides were close, Carroll said, "We're going back and forth, so we're on it. This is a serious time of it, and we'll see how it works out. There's a lot going on along with that, too that plays into all of this, so we just got to figure it out."
Carroll later added, "We're talking intimately about all the stuff that's going on. Everything's going well. So that's why, 'How's it going?' It's going well. But it hasn't happened yet and there's still some distance in there, so we got to work it out."
Carroll and Schneider's comments about Smith also made it clear that, even if they are looking hard at this year's draft class, they're also big fans of Smith both as a player and as a person.
"This was really an incredible experience with a young guy that did some amazing things," Carroll said. "It's such a good story and it's just a real story, it really happened right before our eyes, a guy that kind of got knocked around and kind of got lost in the shuffle after a while, we fell in love with Geno way back years ago because of his competitiveness and he's a terrific athlete as well, and as we just kind of grew along with him, and he stayed with us and each year, we'd have to go back and do another contract, we're doing one-year deals after another—the connection just stayed true throughout, so there's a lot invested in Geno, and Geno's invested lot in us.
"Then when the time comes when he finally gets a chance to play, and really in the Jacksonville game a year ago when he really rocked and came out and completed 15 out of 15 or something, looked like what he looked like this year after a couple games of kind of knocking the rust off -- we had an inkling that there was something really special there, but we didn't know. We really didn't know and didn't know if he could sustain because he hadn't had the opportunity to do that, so all of that combined, and then the way he handled it with such class, character, makeup and competitiveness and, you know, beautiful come-through and athleticism, all that stuff is all part of the story. I think my favorite part of is though is how he handled it, that he was able to take this moment and capture it and he opened up to the club in terms of his leadership opportunities, and it was almost impeccably handled, orchestrated right out of the book—exactly how you'd like it to be. So it was really fascinating to see and thrilling to be a part of it and hopefully, we're working hard to keep it going."
Said Schneider, "He's such a cool guy. I know you guys have probably spent a lot of time with him, and we had conversations about NFL Europe and what that used to look like—because he just wanted an opportunity—and the Brad Johnsons and the Kurt Warners and J.T. O'Sullivan, and Marc Bulger, all those guys that got to play in that league. And then having a conversation about, 'Man, do I get some reps in the CFL? Where do I get my reps?' And then he finally gets his reps in 2021, and he did a nice job. And then he comes back this last year, a ton of confidence. Shoot, I know I've read something where he was talking about being a head coach. We've had those conversations too, so I could see that too. He's just a really, really unique individual and a great, great story. Awesome story for the Seahawks, obviously, and a great story for young people all around the country. What an inspiration just to pull through like that."
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With the Chicago Bears in year two of the Matt Eberflus era, and with the team coming off a season without a playoff appearance, and considering the Bears have never been featured on HBO's Hard Knocks, that means our beloved Navy and Orange could be selected to participate in the popular cable series.
I know what you're thinking... 'There's no way the Bears would ever allow such an invasion at Halas Hall!'
And while the McCaskey family could strongly disagree with the Bears being picked, ultimately, the decision lies with the league.
If a team doesn't meet the criteria mentioned above, they can be picked for the show and have no say in the matter. Besides the Bears, the New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, and the Washington Commanders are all eligible to be picked for the 2023 season.
Another team could volunteer for the award-winning reality series, in which case those four would be of the book, but the odds of a team wanting to be on the show are slim.
March 01, 2023 at 09:30AM
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The PTA meeting last month at my daughters’ Upper Manhattan school seemed pretty routine until new front doors with a buzzer system for the pre-K-8 school building came up on the agenda.
“The proposal is to provide $5,300 for new doors to match the generous donation of a parent who is concerned about school security,” a PTA board member explained.
Steven Evangelista
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The record scratched. Everything stopped. A parent was donating over $5,000 to pay for half of the cost of installing new, more secure doors? Even as a member of this PTA’s executive board, having seen the agenda in advance, the proposal came as a bit of shock.
After nearly 20 years as a leader in a pre-K-5 Harlem charter school where 90% of students come from low-income families, I am acutely aware of the sometimes dramatic school-to-school PTA fundraising differences.
The disparities are particularly glaring here in New York City, one of the most segregated school systems in the country, by both racial and economic factors. In one district, there is a public school where the PTA raised over $2 million and others in the same district where PTAs brought in less than $1,000.
We have these data points thanks to a 2018 law requiring the city to report the amount raised by each PTA each year, though the numbers haven’t been released since 2019. The text of the law is limited to this reporting requirement. But some education advocates saw it as a way to generate public support to address long-standing funding equity concerns, possibly by pooling funds raised by PTAs in the same districts and re-distributing them more evenly across schools.
Nationally, dramatic PTA disparities exacerbate the gaps between wealthier schools and ones with fewer resources. Those gaps often exist even in places like New York, where state and federal funds offset differences in local public funding driven by property taxes. The recent TikTok video showing off the glitzy new campus of Carmel High School in suburban Indianapolis brought that divide to the viral realm.
Of course, many of New York City’s wealthiest families send their children to elite private schools, where annual tuition may cost $60,000 or more.
As I watched the faces on the PTA Zoom call, the issue of fairness came up. My daughters’ school, in Manhattan’s District 6, is an island of privilege; our PTA raises around $80,000 per year, over five times the average of the other schools in the district. Meanwhile, a nonprofit “Friends of” organization raises an additional $50,000 to $100,000 per year for our school’s arts programming. Several parents at the meeting raised this question: “How could we approve this funding when other schools in our district don’t have the funds to install this type of protection?”
What is obvious from the outside will require in reality a massive shift in our assumptions about school.
Yes, the city is working on a plan to make more safety equipment, such as enhanced locks and security cameras, available to all schools, and the principal at my children’s school is already working with several schools in the district to support their interest in more secure doors. But on this fundamental question of equity, my thinking has shifted since joining this high-performing PTA earlier this school year.
From the outside, our group is raising extravagant sums of money. As an insider, I have seen and felt the insecurity and constant scramble for more funds. In preparing for every parent-facing event, someone wonders how we can turn this opportunity into a fundraising ask. There is a frequent sense that we aren’t doing as much as we can, that we are leaving resources for our children on the table by not pursuing donations more aggressively. At our last board meeting, the chair made the point that we may need to add another fundraiser to the calendar since we are meeting staff and parent requests at a higher rate than expected.
From the inside, the notion that this group, aware of its power and privilege and yet never feeling satisfied with contributions to its own school community, should share its funds feels like a major challenge. At my daughters’ school, 45% of students are from low-income families; to extend the idea to communities even more awash in privilege seems inconceivable. What is obvious from the outside — that school funding should be fairly distributed — will require a massive shift in our assumptions about school.
I have pondered related questions. What is our responsibility to each other? What do people with privilege owe those with less? And with 39 schools in our district and over 1,200 schools across New York City, what exactly is “our community” in which we seek some level of equity?
I don’t have answers to these questions, but I won’t stop asking them. I won’t stop seeking answers to them. With the equity comments in mind and a commitment to engage with the other schools in the district, the PTA voted. The new doors, at a cost that is likely more than most schools in the district can raise all year, were overwhelmingly approved.
Steven Evangelista, a lifelong New York City resident and a product of New York City public schools, is a father of two living in Manhattan. After teaching various elementary school grades in District 6 and then District 3, he co-founded and co-led Harlem Link Charter School for 17 years. This essay will also appear in the March 2023 issue ofDear Dean Magazine.
February 27, 2023 at 08:00PM
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“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is the traditional American response to anyone who complains about his lot in life. Stop whining! Grab the opportunity by the horns! Make your own luck. The American system rewards hard work.
This brings me to the case being argued in the Supreme Court Tuesday. At stake is whether President Biden had the power to cancel $500 billion of student debt based on the COVID-19 emergency.
The case has nothing to do with education – but instead whether the President exceeded his authority under something called the HEROS Act – which stands for Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students.
The HEROS Act was a response to the 9/11 attack, as former Attorney General Rob McKenna explained on our show.
“It allows the Secretary of Education to waive or modify the terms of federal student loans in times of war or national emergency,” McKenna said. “The central debating point here is whether or not the COVID pandemic is a national emergency that justifies cancellation of the debt.”
The problem with that approach is that the COVID-19 emergency no longer exists. Which could leave the loan forgiveness program on pretty thin ice.
But might I suggest we have another even bigger emergency to deal with? As in a social emergency?
We have a deep divide that seems to be getting wider. We have a large group of people who feel cut off from the American dream because of discrimination and another large group of people who say the complainers need to get over it and just pull themselves up.
The new leader of the pull-yourself-up movement appears to be Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who said this in his now-notorious video.
“Everybody who focuses their priority on education does well. If they don’t, it can’t be my problem if the solution is so clear, so available, and people don’t want to take it,” Adams said.
I hear that argument a lot– “the solution is so clear,” stop whining and get an education!
And I bring it up here because that’s who these 43 million borrowers are – these are the people who made education their first priority, just like they’re supposed to – only to find their education interrupted by a pandemic, and now their job prospects hindered by a crippled economy.
And it seems crazy to me that the Supreme Court could pile on and issue a decision that ends up punishing the very people who were doing the right thing.
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February 28, 2023 at 11:27PM
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Ross: If the American system rewards hard work, cancel student loan debt - MyNorthwest
Mac Jones said after the New England Patriots' Week 13 loss to the Buffalo Bills that he wanted to be coached harder. But during the second-year quarterback's tumultuous season, coaches reportedly were told to back off.
FOX Sports' Henry McKenna reports Patriots coaches "were instructed not to be too hard on Jones in an effort to protect him from being too critical of himself." A team source also told McKenna that "there was an issue in 2021 with Jones struggling after getting yelled at."
The 2022 season was a challenging one both physically and mentally for Jones. The 24-year-old was forced to adjust to a new offense coached by Matt Patricia and Joe Judge instead of Josh McDaniels. In Week 3, he sustained a high ankle sprain that kept him out the next three weeks and sparked Zappe Fever. Rookie backup QB Bailey Zappe won fans over by leading the Patriots to consecutive wins over the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns.
When Jones returned from injury in Week 7, he struggled while fans at Gillette Stadium chanted "We Want Zappe." Bill Belichick pulled Jones after three drives and went with Zappe the rest of the way.
Jones held on to the starting job from there, but his frustrations boiled over late in the season. On multiple occasions, Jones was caught on the television broadcast wearing his emotions on his sleeve. The season ended on a sour note as the Patriots fell to the Bills and missed the playoffs for the second time in three years.
According to McKenna, the team source suggested "in hindsight, it might have been a mistake to go easy on the quarterback." The Patriots already have taken a major step to remedy that mistake by hiring Bill O'Brien as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
For what it's worth, longtime Patriots captain Devin McCourty gave Jones a strong vote of confidence on Monday.
"I think he's the future of New England," McCourty said on NFL Network. "Any doubts, I think you’re wrong if you don’t think that. I think he's the future. He’s in that building right now doing different things, working with guys, talking to guys; that’s what he wants. He wants to be that quarterback."
With better -- and more strict -- coaching, Jones will look to reestablish himself as one of the top young QBs in the league. Year 3 will be a pivotal season for Jones as he'll be eligible for a contract extension after the 2023 season, and the Patriots will have until May 2024 to pick up his fifth-year option.
February 28, 2023 at 06:30AM
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Mac Jones said after the New England Patriots' Week 13 loss to the Buffalo Bills that he wanted to be coached harder. But during the second-year quarterback's tumultuous season, coaches reportedly were told to back off.
FOX Sports' Henry McKenna reports Patriots coaches "were instructed not to be too hard on Jones in an effort to protect him from being too critical of himself." A team source also told McKenna that "there was an issue in 2021 with Jones struggling after getting yelled at."
The 2022 season was a challenging one both physically and mentally for Jones. The 24-year-old was forced to adjust to a new offense coached by Matt Patricia and Joe Judge instead of Josh McDaniels. In Week 3, he sustained a high ankle sprain that kept him out the next three weeks and sparked Zappe Fever. Rookie backup QB Bailey Zappe won fans over by leading the Patriots to consecutive wins over the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns.
When Jones returned from injury in Week 7, he struggled while fans at Gillette Stadium chanted "We Want Zappe." Bill Belichick pulled Jones after three drives and went with Zappe the rest of the way.
Jones held on to the starting job from there, but his frustrations boiled over late in the season. On multiple occasions, Jones was caught on the television broadcast wearing his emotions on his sleeve. The season ended on a sour note as the Patriots fell to the Bills and missed the playoffs for the second time in three years.
According to McKenna, the team source suggested "in hindsight, it might have been a mistake to go easy on the quarterback." The Patriots already have taken a major step to remedy that mistake by hiring Bill O'Brien as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
For what it's worth, longtime Patriots captain Devin McCourty gave Jones a strong vote of confidence on Monday.
"I think he's the future of New England," McCourty said on NFL Network. "Any doubts, I think you’re wrong if you don’t think that. I think he's the future. He’s in that building right now doing different things, working with guys, talking to guys; that’s what he wants. He wants to be that quarterback."
With better -- and more strict -- coaching, Jones will look to reestablish himself as one of the top young QBs in the league. Year 3 will be a pivotal season for Jones as he'll be eligible for a contract extension after the 2023 season, and the Patriots will have until May 2024 to pick up his fifth-year option.
February 28, 2023 at 07:30AM
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“I’m an A personality and a B facade,” says Woody Harrelson, and that’s as good an explanation for his charm and success as you’re likely to find. The actor has carved out a lovable public persona as a down-home new-agey stoner, but no one too laid-back could have had the career that he’s had. Simply put, the industrious Harrelson is one of film’s greatest character actors. I could name a million things he has done — from big moneymakers (“White Men Can’t Jump,” “Zombieland”) to TV classics (“Cheers,” “True Detective”) to indie gems (“The Messenger,” “Triangle of Sadness,” which is an Academy Award nominee this year for best picture) — but let’s just say he’s one of those actors who, when they show up onscreen, well, you know you’re in good hands. That certainly holds true for the new “Champions,” which is directed by Bobby Farrelly and is in theaters March 10. In this feel-good underdog comedy, a remake of the 2018 Spanish film “Campeones,” Harrelson plays a disgraced minor-league-basketball coach who is forced to lead a community-center team of players with intellectual disabilities. It’s a tricky part, with potential pitfalls of taste and tone, but Harrelson, as he seemingly always and unerringly does, lends the proceedings a naturalistic ease and comfort. “I feel like I’m in a place where I could tackle almost anything,” he says, a mischievous gleam dancing across his eyes. “I could play Oprah!”
The thing I liked the most about “Champions” is the real sense of affection and camaraderie that comes through between you and the actors playing the basketball team, some of whom were first-timers. What was most interesting or surprising about acting with them? Well, the scene when I first meet the Friends,Bobby Farrelly made it so that was actually my first time meeting them — it was onscreen! I had so much trepidation the night before. When he told me, “Maybe we’ll go with the script, maybe we’ll go off it, maybe we just throw the script out,” I was like, “Holy [expletive].” As an actor, I’m maybe too rigid, but I’ve always thought you kind of need that script, even if you’re going to improvise. But as with most fears, it was completely illusory. These guys are so cool, so funny, so honest. They’ll never tell you a lie. They’ll tell you a fib — “your shoe’s untied” — but their kindness and warmth, within a couple of hours I was hook, line and sinker a part of them. I haven’t had much experience with people with disabilities, so I didn’t know what to expect and I’ve got to say, it was probably the most enjoyable experience I ever had making a movie.
Woody Harrelson in the upcoming “Champions.”Focus Features
It’s interesting to hear you say that maybe you’re too rigid an actor, because I think one of the most appealing things about your performances is that they never come off as mechanical or mannered. Is that just part of the illusion? When things are going right, I don’t feel rigid. But there are performances where I was like, why couldn’t I just get outside whatever I was doing. Ten years later, I’ll think of something I should have done in a scene, and I want to tear my head off. “Planet of the Apes” — that’s one of those times where there was so much technology involved in what we were doing, I was a little daunted. If I did that part again, I could do it 20 times better. There’s several roles that I go back and think: Why didn’t I try this? Why didn’t I do that? Why didn’t I step into a whole ’nother character? But it’s probably best to let those things drop. They can haunt you.
Another thought I had when I was watching “Champions” was that it reminded me so much of the kinds of movies that were all over theaters in the ’90s. Basically, midbudget studio movies like the Farrelly brothers used to make. Some of your peers, guys likeMatt Damon,have said that those movies, which you all made your bones on, are disappearing because of the way the business has changed. But you never seem to be lacking for good work. So how do you see the movie business as having evolved? The business obviously changed. Those movies that go into the theaters, people want to see action: Marvel or the Tom Cruise thing. Which doesn’t necessarily bode well for a movie like “Champions,” but I’m hopeful that people go see it. I don’t know. I’ve been lucky. I was glad to do “Carnage” and such, but my heart is more with movies like this and the indies. Now to get an indie done? Especially with all the Covid protocols — which, to me, are rather absurd. I don’t know what’s going to happen.
Harrelson in “Triangle of Sadness” (2022).Neon, via Everett Collection
What’s absurd about the Covid protocols? The fact that they’re still going on! I don’t think that anybody should have the right to demand that you’re forced to do the testing, forced to wear the mask and forced to get vaccinated three years on. I’m just like, Let’s be done with this nonsense. It’s not fair to the crews. I don’t have to wear the mask. Why should they? Why should they have to be vaccinated? How’s that not up to the individual? I shouldn’t be talking about this [expletive]. It makes me angry for the crew. The anarchist part of me, I don’t feel that we should have forced testing, forced masking and forced vaccination. That’s not a free country. Really I’m talking about the crew. Because I can get out of wearing a mask. I can test less. I’m not in the same position they’re in, but it’s wrong. It’s three years. Stop.
The one thing I’ll say about that is that a big lesson of the pandemic is that it turns out most of us are pretty bad at rationally assessing risk and at handling one another’s different comfort levels with risk. Yeah, anyway, as an anarchist, I don’t do well with mandates.
Harrelson with Matthew McConaughey in the first season of “True Detective” (2014).HBO, via Everett Collection
There was a time in your career when you did a fair bit of public activism. You didthe campus tours,theGo Furtherthing, you protested at the Golden Gate Bridge, youplanted the hemp seeds.But you don’t do much of that anymore. Why not? I did do a documentary called “Kiss the Ground.” That would be the most recent kind of advocacy, which is distinctive because I feel like that helped people look at regenerative agriculture differently. Whereas climbing the Golden Gate Bridge? At the time I was fired up about it because they were cutting down old-growth forests. But what I realized is it makes zero difference. I could go protest, and maybe it raises the awareness but doesn’t stop the thing. I could go hang off one of those big mountaintop-remover coal things, but that’s not going to stop it. Because there isn’t the political will. I’m still interested in activism, but it would have to be very precise and helpful. I mean, getting arrested for protesting the murder of ancient trees? All it did was get me arrested. It didn’t slow the murder.
I think around that same time, when you were doing more activism, it was also the one period in your career when your productivity slowed down. You’ve always worked a ton, except for those few years in the late ’90s, early 2000s. What was going on then? Around ’97 I had done maybe five movies in a row, and I was so burned out. It was my own fault. I could have easily turned down some of those projects, but at the end of it I had lost my mojo. Whatever it was that made me keen on acting was just gone. And right at the end of that time, my second daughter was born, and I wanted to spend time with those gals. But I’d be foolish if I didn’t admit that probably my popularity was lower. I did five bombs in a row. You do one movie that doesn’t succeed, ugh. But two, three and then five? Then — I don’t remember if it was 2001 or 2002 — when I said, OK, I’m ready to get back into it, I’m thinking, I don’t know if there’ll be a ticker-tape parade, but certainly there’s going to be some warm response. Nothing. No response. I even agreed to do this movie that was not good. I won’t get into any specifics, but it was a stupid thing. I meet with the director, and I’m going to do it — they’re making it for like $500,000 — then the guy just goes with someone else! Didn’t call me. Nothing. I’m like, whoa, man, things have gotten tough. But slowly and surely I started getting back into it, and things started going better. I remember watching a screening of “Zombieland.” It was a huge theater, and, man, it was like being at the best rock concert you could imagine. I was like, this is going to do well. After that I started feeling like, OK, I’ve still got some work to do until I get to a time where I can take a year or two off, but everything was happening.
Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg in “Zombieland” (2009).Glen Wilson/Columbia, via Everett Collection
I was thinking about how you referred to yourself as an anarchist before, which I’ve seen you do in other interviews. I understand theoretically what it means to call yourself that, but how does that show up practically? I’m not a pure anarchist, for sure. I’m more of an anarchist/Marxist/capitalist/redneck hippie. But government is always in the hands of big business. It’s like big businessmen working for bigger businessmen. There are exceptions. A friend of mine, after Trump was elected, said, “I’ve got to do something.” So he did. He got elected to Congress in a district in Minnesota where they hadn’t had a Democrat in office in quite a long time. Dean Phillips is his name. That guy is pure. He really cares. So I’m recognizing that there are those people out there, but in my life I don’t look at authority with great fondness. It just feels like the government’s never like, Hey, can I lend you hand? Even the social programs they do are begrudging, and they’re constantly trying to nick money out of it. Do you see the government really reaching out a hand to the little fellow? No. Especially the United States government. I look at the United States government as fascism with a smiley face.
Harrelson with Juliette Lewis in the 1994 film “Natural Born Killers.”Warner Bros., via Everett Collection
It’s interesting to me that a guy like you grew up culturally conservative. I mean, you went to thesame college as Mike Pence,you canvassed for Ronald Reagan. What flipped the switch and made you interested in other ways of thinking? I’ve always been a student. I study life, and as an actor, you’re studying. You’re playing a doctor, you study a doctor. Even outside of that, I love reading and learning. But a big thing happened for me when I was 23, I think. I was on a bus going from St. Louis to Oklahoma City — don’t recommend that on Greyhound — and this gal next to me sees me blowing my nose. And I had all this acne, and she goes, “You’re lactose intolerant.” What? “You stop dairy, and all these things are going to go away.” You’re telling me it’s dairy, which does a body good? So I did it, and days later those symptoms were gone. It was like, Wow, so what else is not true? Reagan, the great communicator? This guy was awful! I started seeing it for what it was. I started understanding the ecological impact of things, the heavy footprint of the beast, as I call it. All these various industries that are raping Mother Earth, getting giant tax breaks. I started getting that this is how the world actually works and that being a Republican ain’t going to help things. Being a Democrat ain’t going to help either. I did vote for Biden though, just because.
You’re obviously interested in the workings of your own consciousness and how it can change. Are you able to articulate the ways that fame affects one’s mind? It’s not a good thing. I don’t think fame is ever an evolving consciousness. It’s fine and dandy for people to tell you you’re great. Nothing wrong with that. Moment you start believing it, that’s when things are getting [expletive] up. When everybody opens the door for you — here’s the best table, here’s whatever you need — and people bend over backward, if your mind starts to believe, yeah, I deserve this, it’s not good. I’m still going through my trip with fame, but even without fame, to deal with one’s ego is a powerful tussle. When Krishna talks to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, that’s what it is all about. It’s about being more in the spiritual self and less about the sensory self. If your world is caught up in sensory experience, that’s understandable. There’s a lot of sensory elements to the world. But when you throw in the added veneer of fame, how do you then segue over to, OK, I want to be the part of me that is my heart, my loving nature? I could go on about this.
Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in “White Men Can’t Jump” (1992).20th Century Fox Film Corp., via Everett Collection
I asked because I’m interested. It’s just very much in my mind now. In every aspect that my ego has grown outsized, I admonish myself. I have such anger with myself for allowing it. I want to see the kid I was, that 12-year-old who’s so full of love for everybody. Even into my 20s, I was the most loving person. I had such kindness. And then once fame came along, that started [expletive] with those good attributes. I do feel like I’m in a much better place now than I was even five years ago. My kids have always let me know what an idiot I am. Let’s just say they don’t pat me on the back unnecessarily. They’ve helped me to be a kinder, gentler soul. I’m generally a kind person, but I’d be impatient, you know? I don’t like incompetent people. I can be hard on someone who’s not doing their job right. I hate myself for it. Luckily, I’ve had experiences lately that have encouraged me to want to be a better person. Even last year, like seven months out of the year, I didn’t drink. I do like to drink, but I realize too much is not good for anybody. It can make you more moody or aggro. I’m drinking now, but I’m much more moderate. Last night I think I had half a glass of wine, as opposed to four, maybe five. I start every morning with Wim Hof. It’s possible to shift some of the negatives: Drink less, eat less, all of those sensory things that a guy like me craves. I have a gluttonous side, and I know that’s not going to help me be a spiritually better person.
Harrelson with Shelley Long in “Cheers” in 1985.Kim Gottlieb-Walker/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal, via Getty Images
How does weed fit into that? Is it helpful? Probably no more helpful than alcohol. There’s no real help to it, but I’m addicted! I’m a first-rate addict. But I do have the dispensary, the Woods, and it wouldn’t be right to go in there and not have a puff. [Laughs.] But listen, I want to smoke less, and I do smoke less. I’m trying to evolve in as many ways as I can. I know I should just stop smoking, stop drinking, just eat raw food. All those things, I should do. But I’m the year of the ox — slow, trudging along. I’m going to get there though.
Are there ways in which acting helps you understand or improve yourself? Yeah. Even when you’re studying to do some barbaric type of character, like in “Natural Born Killers” — not a comfortable place to be in, but all of us have this dark side. You have your shadow, these things that in some way define an aspect of your character that is not your prettiest self. I think there’s a great deal of benefit to exploring that. Jung and some of these other guys think you should embrace your shadow, almost love your shadow. Maybe that is imperative to your overall growth: to accept yourself as you are, with all your faults.
This interview has been edited and condensed from two conversations.
February 27, 2023 at 05:10PM
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Woody Harrelson Can Play Anyone. It's Being Himself That's Hard. - The New York Times
California has more storage space in aquifers than in reservoirs, but getting storm water there is proving difficult.
Tulare Lake, near Corcoran.Adam Perez for The New York Times
Despite the storms that have deluged California this winter, the state remains dogged by drought. And one of the simplest solutions — collecting and storing rainfall — is far more complicated than it seems.
Much of California’s water infrastructure hinges on storing precipitation during the late fall and winter for use during the dry spring and summer. The state’s groundwater aquifers can hold vast quantities of water — far more than its major reservoirs.
But those aquifers have been significantly depleted in recent decades, especially in the Central Valley, where farmers have increasingly pumped out water for their crops. And as Raymond Zhong, a New York Times climate journalist, recently reported, the state’s strict regulations surrounding water rights limit the diversion of floodwaters for storage as groundwater, even during fierce storms like the atmospheric rivers this winter.
I talked to Raymond to learn more about the potential of California’s groundwater, and its limitations. Here’s our conversation, edited for clarity and length:
How did this story come about?
I did a big story last year on flood risk in California and how climate change was increasing the risk of really strong storms. It was during the drought, and nobody in California was really thinking about the opposite problem, but they are two sides of the same hydrological equation. With climate change, you get both stronger storms and potentially longer and more intense droughts. In December and January, a bunch of strong storms swept through, and a lot of the concerns I was talking with experts about last year were realized.
This issue of using storm water to recharge groundwater sounds very simple, and it’s a solution that people have been interested in for a long time. But getting infrastructure, getting the money to do that and, in California, navigating the bureaucracy around water rights, is a big complication.
How do you weigh the opposing forces of regulations meant to protect water rights and water districts eager to counteract drought?
Water rights are clearly important for the government to protect. You don’t want to have irrigation districts, even cities and towns, arbitrarily deprived of water. But in California, the water rights system is often proving to be inflexible. These storms deliver a huge amount of very temporary water supplies, and it’s just unclear, the way the system works now, who gets to take that water. It’s water that’s there a few weeks, even days, every couple of years.
The state has tried to advance the system to create temporary water rights, effectively. But it can take months to get one of these permits. The result has been that the system just doesn’t move quickly enough to take advantage when these storms come. And even last month, some districts that got permits didn’t get them quickly enough. So they had to watch a lot of the rain from those storms wash away into the ocean.
To what extent can the state’s drought conditions be addressed through an expanded use of groundwater?
Groundwater is super important for the state, and it’s really where the state has been losing most of its water supplies because of decades of over-pumping the ground. The potential for groundwater to improve the sustainability of the state’s supply is really huge. Storm water on its own probably won’t solve California’s drought issues, but it could make a big difference.
How will climate change exacerbate these problems? What’s at stake here in the long term?
California is already seeing how the swings between wet and dry have widened, even in just the last decade. The state just went through the driest three years in its history. But then starting with the storms in December, you had some of the wettest weeks.
With climate change, those extremes become more extreme. So a solution like figuring out how to put some of that floodwater into the ground and keeping it in reserve for droughts is going to become more and more important.
Megan Shumway, a retired nurse, gathered in June 2022 with other climate activists demonstrating outside a hearing of the California Air Resources Board in Sacramento.Rich Pedroncelli via AP Photo
Tobacco ban: Some California lawmakers want to eventually ban all tobacco sales in the state, filing legislation to make it illegal to sell cigarettes and other products to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, The Associated Press reports.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Blizzard: As steady snowfall continued to present hazards in the mountains of Southern California on Saturday, residents at lower elevations dealt with the fallout from a more familiar threat: flooding.
Illegal vacation rentals: Three years after Los Angeles enacted new regulations for vacation rentals on websites such as Airbnb, the city’s enforcement of the law has declined, LAist reports.
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Gang sweep: The authorities in central California announced more than two dozen arrests during a gang crackdown after the fatal shootings last month of six people at a home in Goshen, The Associated Press reports.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Student housing: A state appellate court has issued a final ruling that stops U.C. Berkeley from building student housing at People’s Park and opens new paths to block development, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Yosemite Park closed: Yosemite National Park is officially closed through at least Wednesday because of ongoing severe winter storm conditions, SFist reports.
Today’s tip comes from Debbie Hopkins, who recommends Lakes Basin Recreation Area in Plumas National Forest at the northern end of the Sierra Nevada: “Year-round activities. Stunning landscape and lacks the crowds of nearby Tahoe.”
Tell us about your favorite places to visit in California. Email your suggestions to CAtoday@nytimes.com. We’ll be sharing more in upcoming editions of the newsletter.
And before you go, some good news
“Ever since Marlon Brando and a group of thugs invaded the fictional Bleeker’s Cafe and Bar in the 1953 motorcycle film ‘The Wild One,’ the term ‘biker bar’ has carried a tantalizing whiff of danger,” Alta reports.
These bars “provide the unexpected thrill of discovering a funky little outpost with an inviting selection of brews, a stage for weekend musicians, and maybe a pool table or two,” the journal says. And where better to find them than in California’s deserts.
February 27, 2023 at 09:00PM
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Why It’s Hard for California to Store More Water Underground - The New York Times
California has more storage space in aquifers than in reservoirs, but getting storm water there is proving difficult.
Tulare Lake, near Corcoran.Adam Perez for The New York Times
Despite the storms that have deluged California this winter, the state remains dogged by drought. And one of the simplest solutions — collecting and storing rainfall — is far more complicated than it seems.
Much of California’s water infrastructure hinges on storing precipitation during the late fall and winter for use during the dry spring and summer. The state’s groundwater aquifers can hold vast quantities of water — far more than its major reservoirs.
But those aquifers have been significantly depleted in recent decades, especially in the Central Valley, where farmers have increasingly pumped out water for their crops. And as Raymond Zhong, a New York Times climate journalist, recently reported, the state’s strict regulations surrounding water rights limit the diversion of floodwaters for storage as groundwater, even during fierce storms like the atmospheric rivers this winter.
I talked to Raymond to learn more about the potential of California’s groundwater, and its limitations. Here’s our conversation, edited for clarity and length:
How did this story come about?
I did a big story last year on flood risk in California and how climate change was increasing the risk of really strong storms. It was during the drought, and nobody in California was really thinking about the opposite problem, but they are two sides of the same hydrological equation. With climate change, you get both stronger storms and potentially longer and more intense droughts. In December and January, a bunch of strong storms swept through, and a lot of the concerns I was talking with experts about last year were realized.
This issue of using storm water to recharge groundwater sounds very simple, and it’s a solution that people have been interested in for a long time. But getting infrastructure, getting the money to do that and, in California, navigating the bureaucracy around water rights, is a big complication.
How do you weigh the opposing forces of regulations meant to protect water rights and water districts eager to counteract drought?
Water rights are clearly important for the government to protect. You don’t want to have irrigation districts, even cities and towns, arbitrarily deprived of water. But in California, the water rights system is often proving to be inflexible. These storms deliver a huge amount of very temporary water supplies, and it’s just unclear, the way the system works now, who gets to take that water. It’s water that’s there a few weeks, even days, every couple of years.
The state has tried to advance the system to create temporary water rights, effectively. But it can take months to get one of these permits. The result has been that the system just doesn’t move quickly enough to take advantage when these storms come. And even last month, some districts that got permits didn’t get them quickly enough. So they had to watch a lot of the rain from those storms wash away into the ocean.
To what extent can the state’s drought conditions be addressed through an expanded use of groundwater?
Groundwater is super important for the state, and it’s really where the state has been losing most of its water supplies because of decades of over-pumping the ground. The potential for groundwater to improve the sustainability of the state’s supply is really huge. Storm water on its own probably won’t solve California’s drought issues, but it could make a big difference.
How will climate change exacerbate these problems? What’s at stake here in the long term?
California is already seeing how the swings between wet and dry have widened, even in just the last decade. The state just went through the driest three years in its history. But then starting with the storms in December, you had some of the wettest weeks.
With climate change, those extremes become more extreme. So a solution like figuring out how to put some of that floodwater into the ground and keeping it in reserve for droughts is going to become more and more important.
Megan Shumway, a retired nurse, gathered in June 2022 with other climate activists demonstrating outside a hearing of the California Air Resources Board in Sacramento.Rich Pedroncelli via AP Photo
Tobacco ban: Some California lawmakers want to eventually ban all tobacco sales in the state, filing legislation to make it illegal to sell cigarettes and other products to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, The Associated Press reports.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Blizzard: As steady snowfall continued to present hazards in the mountains of Southern California on Saturday, residents at lower elevations dealt with the fallout from a more familiar threat: flooding.
Illegal vacation rentals: Three years after Los Angeles enacted new regulations for vacation rentals on websites such as Airbnb, the city’s enforcement of the law has declined, LAist reports.
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Gang sweep: The authorities in central California announced more than two dozen arrests during a gang crackdown after the fatal shootings last month of six people at a home in Goshen, The Associated Press reports.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Student housing: A state appellate court has issued a final ruling that stops U.C. Berkeley from building student housing at People’s Park and opens new paths to block development, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Yosemite Park closed: Yosemite National Park is officially closed through at least Wednesday because of ongoing severe winter storm conditions, SFist reports.
Today’s tip comes from Debbie Hopkins, who recommends Lakes Basin Recreation Area in Plumas National Forest at the northern end of the Sierra Nevada: “Year-round activities. Stunning landscape and lacks the crowds of nearby Tahoe.”
Tell us about your favorite places to visit in California. Email your suggestions to CAtoday@nytimes.com. We’ll be sharing more in upcoming editions of the newsletter.
And before you go, some good news
“Ever since Marlon Brando and a group of thugs invaded the fictional Bleeker’s Cafe and Bar in the 1953 motorcycle film ‘The Wild One,’ the term ‘biker bar’ has carried a tantalizing whiff of danger,” Alta reports.
These bars “provide the unexpected thrill of discovering a funky little outpost with an inviting selection of brews, a stage for weekend musicians, and maybe a pool table or two,” the journal says. And where better to find them than in California’s deserts.
February 27, 2023 at 09:00PM
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Why It’s Hard for California to Store More Water Underground - The New York Times
“Vegas in hard on Meier,” I heard an NHL source say two days ago.
But yesterday, Pierre LeBrun and Chris Johnston essentially said the same thing, identifying the Vegas Golden Knights, New Jersey Devils, and Carolina Hurricanes as the three favorites to land Meier. While New Jersey and Carolina are widely considered the leaders in the Meier sweepstakes, with the St. Louis Blues as an honorable mention, Johnston called the Golden Knights a “dark horse”.
I didn’t believe it because I have no idea what futures Vegas could offer that would entice the San Jose Sharks.
“Their system is awful,” an NHL scout told San Jose Hockey Now.
According to SJHN’s sources, the Golden Knights have no Grade-A prospects and probably only one clear-cut Grade-B prospect in the entire system, defenseman Lukas Cormier.
Other than that? Well, it’s a desert out there.
“I would think it has to be centered around one of Chayka, Korczak, Dorofeyev and Brisson. Plus Cormier,” another NHL source offered.
Defensemen Daniil Chayka and Kaeden Korczak, and forwards Pavel Dorofeyev and Brendan Brisson, are probably Grade-C prospects these days.
“Dorofeyev is not a sure thing. Chayka and Korczak look like okay stay-at-home guys. Brisson and Cormier are the two with upside, and even then,” the source acknowledged, “I wouldn’t be running to the table [for that].”
Another source stressed that there was “no way” a direct trade between bitter playoff rivals San Jose Sharks and Vegas could happen. But could Meier be sent to a middle-man team who re-routes him to the Golden Knights? That was possible.
But that doesn’t change the fact that San Jose appears to be looking for three high-end futures for Meier – and Vegas doesn’t have that.
That is, unless?
“Not sure anyone else [in Vegas] gets you there for Meier other than lots of picks,” the source intimated.
The Golden Knights have their 2023 first-round pick, but they’re likely going to the playoffs, so that selection wouldn’t be the most enticing. But take that pick, and add another unprotected future Vegas first-rounder?
The Golden Knights are an older team, and despite their best efforts, their Cup-contending window may be closed sooner than they expect. They did miss the playoffs last year, after all.
So if you’re San Jose Sharks GM Mike Grier, maybe you ask for an unprotected 2024 or 2025 first-rounder, on top of say Cormier and the 2023 first, and roll the dice that the 2024 or 2025 lands in the lottery?
For San Jose Sharks fans, besides beating Vegas in the playoffs, what could be sweeter than profiting from their misery?
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February 26, 2023 at 12:05PM
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SOURCE: ‘Vegas in hard on Meier’ - San Jose Hockey Now
