Basin Instinct CHERRY BLOSSOMS SPECIAL SECTION: the Trees Have Yet to fl Aunt Their Petals, but Already the Masses Feel the Primal Pull of Spring
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A PUBLICATION OF TWP | MARCH 22-24, 2013 | FREE DAILY Basin Instinct CHERRY BLOSSOMS SPECIAL SECTION: The trees have yet to fl aunt their petals, but already the masses feel the primal pull of spring. Join them, won’t you? PAGES 14-25 JOHN S. DYKES/FOR EXPRESS March Madness: Hoyas jump into the fray, plus an NCAA TV guide 10-12 2 | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 | FRIDAY CHRIS RADBURN/GETTY IMAGES eye openers STICKY FINGERS Police Find Baffled Thieves Stuck to Getaway Vehicles Thieves are illegally tapping maple trees on private property in Maine and stealing sap that is used to make maple syrup. Forest Ranger Jeff Currier says the Maine Forest Service has gotten a dozen complaints from landowners finding taps in their trees with buck- ets or jugs underneath to collect the sap. (AP) PAYING IT FORWARD “We are always on the lookout for ways to recycle.” — KATHY COX, OF DOGS ALOUD, A DOG-GROOMING SALON IN ENGLAND, WHICH IS ENCOURAGING RESIDENTS TO TAKE HAIR FROM THE SALON AND LEAVE IT OUTSIDE THEIR HOMES FOR BIRDS TO MAKE NESTS WITH, THE BLACKPOOL GAZETTE REPORTED THURSDAY REVIEWS ‘That Was the Priciest Bumper-Car Ride Ever’ San Diego police are searching for a couple who crashed a $250,000 Lamborghini only hours after it was purchased. KGTV-TV reported that police were called Monday after witnesses said a 2008 black Lam- borghini Murcielago left Interstate 5 at a high speed ‘KATE NEEDED THE CARRIAGE’ Queen Elizabeth II boards a train Wednesday and crashed; they said a man and woman got out and on her way to Baker Street Underground Station, where she was to mark the 150th ran off. Police said paperwork in the car indicated it had anniversary of the London Underground. been purchased that day. 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Governor and Insurance Oversight. There’s the “active sick and worried,” people who Washington income people. And at least 13 Civil unions for gay couples got Demo- are uninsured or have pre-existing medical conditions. Under the law, insurers states have already indicated they cratic Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signa- Three years, two elections, and one will no longer be able to turn the sick away. There’s the healthy and young. will not agree to that. ture in Colorado on Thursday, punctu- Supreme Court decision after Pres- “They feel invincible, they don’t feel a need for health insurance,” Cohen said. “It could look like two or three ating a dramatic turnaround in a state ident Barack Obama signed the Finally, there’s the passive and unengaged. “For these people, a significant different countries,” said Rob- where voters banned same-sex marriage Affordable Care Act, its promise of education effort needs to happen,” he said. To keep premiums affordable, ert Blendon, a Harvard School of in 2006 and restricted protections for health care for the uninsured may the government will need to sign up lots of people from the last two groups Public Health professor who stud- gays two decades ago. The law will take to balance those in poor health. Public outreach will begin in earnest this be delayed or undercut in much of ies public opinion on health care. effect May 1. (AP) the country because of entrenched summer and early fall. (AP) “The political culture of a state is NEW YORK opposition from many Republican going to play an important role in state leaders. Make no mistake, the federal coverage effective Jan. 1. But they getting millions of people to vol- N.Y. Suspect in Deadly In half the states, mainly led government will step in and cre- need a broad cross-section of peo- untarily sign up.” Crash Pleads Not Guilty by Democrats, offi cials are racing ate new insurance markets in the ple, or else the pool will be stuck The Congressional Budget Julio Acevedo pleaded not guilty to three deadlines to connect uninsured 26 mostly red states declining to with what the government calls Offi ce predicts a slow start over- counts of manslaughter on Thursday in a residents to coverage now only run their own. Just like the state- the “sick and worried” — the cost- all, with only 7 million gaining cov- crash that killed a pregnant woman and months away. In others it’s as if run markets in mostly Democrat- liest patients. erage through the exchanges next her husband. The couple’s premature “Obamacare” — signed Mar. 23, ic-led states, the feds will start Insurance markets, or exchang- year, rising to 24 million in 2016. baby was delivered after the wreck but 2010 — had never passed. signing up customers Oct. 1 for es, are one prong of Obama’s law, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (AP) died as well. Acevedo also pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminally negligent homicide. (AP) In Pa., Winter Not Going Without a Fight CHICAGO Government Funding 54 Chicago Schools to Close to Address Deficit Bill Passes the House Chicago Public Schools officials said Thursday they will close 54 schools as slower or halted services and aid part of a plan to address the district’s Washington for many Americans. $1 billion deficit. District CEO Barbara Moving on two fronts, the GOP-con- The nonbinding GOP budget Byrd-Bennett and Chicago Mayor Rahm trolled House on Thursday voted to plan for 2014 and beyond calls Emanuel say the closures are necessary keep the government running for for a balanced budget in 10 years’ because too many school buildings are the next six months while pushing time and sharp cuts to safety-net half-empty. (AP) through a tea-party-flavored budget programs for the poor and other for next year that would shrink the domestic programs. government by another $4.6 trillion Thursday’s developments dem- Corrections over the next decade. onstrated the split nature of this A graphic with the Cover Story The spending authorization year’s budget debate. Competing “Wars’ Debts Run Deep” on page 9 on its way to the White House for nonbinding budget measures by Wednesday improperly labeled the President Barack Obama’s signa- each party provide platforms for lines for WWI and peacetime. WWI ture leaves in place $85 billion political principles; at the same benefits are roughly $20 million in spending cuts to the Pentagon time Capitol Hill leaders forged annually; peacetime/other benefits and domestic agencies. The result a bipartisan deal on carrying out are more than $5 billion a year. will be temporary furloughs for the government’s core responsibil- JOHN RUCOSKY/AP The World story “Pakistani Girl hundreds of thousands of federal ities, in this case providing money LEAH CODDINGTON SHOVELS SNOW at her home Thursday in Shot by Taliban Back in School” on workers and contractors over the for agencies, preventing a govern- Boswell, Pa., after an overnight storm dumped about 5 inches of snow. Page 6 Wednesday was cut off. The next six months and interrupted, ment shutdown. ANDREW TAYLOR (AP) last sentence should have said: “The shooting sparked outrage in Pakistan and many other countries.” Paperback Greener: Thanks to conservation efforts and the rise of e-books, the publishing indus- The Lookout story “ ‘Bible’ Told Me try is creating a leaner and cleaner paper trail. According to a new report Thursday by two environmental So” on page 15 Thursday incorrectly groups — the Book Industry Environmental Council and Green Press Initiative — paper suppliers use around described the photo. The image is of 25 percent recycled fiber for book materials, compared with an estimated 5 percent in 2004. (AP) John baptizing Jesus. 4 | EXPRESS | 03.22.2013 | FRIDAY Nation Since 1904, John C. Flood has provided the Washington, D.C. area with reliable plumbing, heating, Reid: Background Checks in Gun Bill air conditioning, and bathroom remodeling. 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