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Close to 75 demonstrators showed up outside Bob Brady’s Broad Street office to urge the congressman to support a House Bill on immigration reform. By Lorraine Gennaro R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
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hanting in Spanish and carrying banners that read, “This is the only home I and my children know” and “We are not terrorists, we are workers,” close to 75 Latinos and Asians arrived outside Congressman Bob Brady’s office. All ages — including children — from all walks of life had one thing in common: They were immigrants who braved freezing temperatures Feb. 2 to call on Brady to support an immigration bill that would, in part, give them legal status. Fidel de la Luz, a Mexican immigrant See IMMIGRATION page 11
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Digging out along the 2600 block of South Watts Street required a full neighborhood effort Monday afternoon as City plows had trouble making it down narrow streets. S ta f f P h o t o b y G r e g B e z a n i s
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Residents have found ways to cope with what could be the city’s snowiest winter ever.
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While local football fans were left with an empty feeling once again, the Saints proved to the world the impossible can become a reality.
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hile the City has vowed to plow smaller streets after the main roads have been cleared, some residents were not willing to wait. “We need groceries,” Carla Carpenter, of the 2600 block of Juniper Street, said Monday. “I’m handicapped. I can’t carry
my bags up the street.” A City plow made its way up Juniper at about midnight Saturday after the first 2 inches of snow fell, but, as of Monday, had not reappeared, she said. “It’s a waste of our money — our taxpayers’ money,” Carpenter said. But Philadelphia hasn’t seen a winter of this magnitude since 1995-96 when a total of 65.5 inches of the white stuff cov-
ered the sidewalks and streets. This past weekend’s accumulation was 28.5 inches, according to the City. About 23.2 inches accumulated during the Dec. 19 and 20 snowstorm that cost the city about $3.5 million, according to Mayor Michael Nutter’s spokeswoman Maura Kennedy. Costs for the recent storm were not all See SNOW page 9