Lawrence Journal-World 02-23-13

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CITY CREWS CLEAR Massachusetts Street of large piles of snow Friday, the day after Lawrence was buried by a winter storm.

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Regular mail flow should resume today; street crews working 24 hours a day John Young/Journal-World Photos

FREE STATE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS CELEBRATE at mid-court following the Free State boys’ victory against Lawrence High, 44-38, on Friday night at Free State. The Free State girls also beat their crosstown rivals in the City Showdown. Read more game coverage in Sports, page 1B.

Firebirds sweep Lions in City Showdown By Benton Smith

A LAWRENCE HIGH FAN in the LHS student section reacts to a turnover during the basketball showdown Friday night.

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Only one city high school’s student body got a chance to work off the built-up energy of back-toback snow days by rushing the court Friday night at Free State High School, and the Firebirds’ boys basketball team made sure their classmates would be the ones celebrating. Free State shut down the typically potent five-guard attack of rival Lawrence High, ranked No. 7 in Class 6A, most of the night to win the City Showdown, 44-38. The Firebirds (9-11) avenged a 55-49 loss to the Lions (12-8) on Dec. 14 by rendering the LHS offense useless the majority of the first half. Lawrence made just one field goal in both the first and second quarters, and the Firebirds built

By Matt Erickson and Ian Cummings merickson@ljworld.com; icummings@ljworld.com

The snowfall largely put U.S. Postal Service mail delivery on hold for the area, likely until today, Lawrence postmaster Judy Raney said. Postal workers attempted to deliver mail Thursday, Raney said, and a few streets that had been plowed received deliveries. But most routes weren’t completed. “Everybody just got stuck,” Raney said. Friday, she said, workers were making deliveries mostly on schedule. But now there’s a new problem: Post offices in the Kansas City area received little mail for Friday, because offices weren’t able to send anything to the Kansas City, Mo., sorting plant on Thursday. “Essentially, we received no mail,” Raney said. The regular flow of mail won’t resume until today, she said, when all steps in the pipeline will have returned to normal. “Everything should catch up in that time Please see SNOW, page 7A

a 22-7 lead entering the second half. Lawrence had cut its rival’s lead to 39-38 when freshman Justin Roberts scored with 2:53 to play in the fourth quarter. However, Free State se-

nior Cody Scott converted a basket inside with 1:17 left to give FSHS a 42-38 advantage. FSHS junior Khadre Lane led all scorers with 18 points; his teammate Blake Winslow scored 10. No one from

Lawrence scored more than the nine apiece put up by sophomore Anthony Bonner and senior Drake Hofer. Free State swept the rivalry games Friday with a 61-37 girls basketball victory.

Election officials urge early voting to avoid more snow By Peter Hancock

Kansas health care advocates urge rejection of resolution calling for no Medicaid expansion By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — Allowing more low-income people to get health coverage will save lives and boost the economy, health care providers said Friday as they urged legislators to reject a resolution that says Kansas isn’t interested in expanding Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act.

But several Republican After the hearing, House legislators supported the res- Appropriations Commitolution, saying Medictee Chairman Marc aid expansion would Rhoades, R-Newton, be too costly, drive said he would talk up the federal deficit, with fellow commitand they expressed tee members to see if general displeasure there was any interwith the ACA, which est in working further was signed into law LEGISLATURE on House Concurrent by President Barack Resolution 5013. Obama and is known as The measure indicates the Obamacare. Legislature’s “intention not

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With the possibility of more snow coming early next week, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew is urging voters in Lawrence to take advantage of advance voting in Tuesday’s primary election for Lawrence City Commission seats. Shew also announced that advance voting will be available at the Courthouse Sunday afternoon. “Our office is preparing emergency plans for Election Day,” Shew said in an email message to news outlets Friday. “There is no provision in state law for postponing Election Day. Our Please see VOTING, page 7A

Please see MEDICAID, page 2A

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to expand Medicaid services in Kansas,” under the ACA. Currently, Medicaid provides health care coverage to about 380,000 Kansans. The largest portion of them — about 230,000 — are children. The rest are mostly lower-income, pregnant women, people with disabilities and elderly people.

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Plaintiffs in the Kansas school finance lawsuit say the district court did not order a big enough increase in education funding, and they’re asking the state Supreme Court to order much more. Page 2A

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