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Borough Assembly meetings are now back in the municipal building on Nordic Drive - KFSK continues to provide live broadcast of these community meetings. Next meeting Monday, April 3rd, 12noon. Find the Archive of past meetings here: KFSK Borough Meeting Archive

Borough Assembly meetings are now back in the municipal building on Nordic Drive - KFSK continues to provide live broadcast of these community meetings. Next meeting Monday, April 3rd, 12noon. Find the Archive of past meetings here: KFSK Borough Meeting Archive

Print article I understand that the state of our communities, our economy and our nation have been stressful over the last few months. I get it: This year has illuminated new challenges for parents, business owners, educators and the most vulnerable in our community. But the thinly veiled homophobic assault on Assemblyman Felix Rivera is nothing short of despicable. On one hand, you have people who are suing Mr. Rivera for not allowing enough people into the Assembly Chambers, despite the sci...

Medicaid expansion and in virginia several tweets but to visits for the president. instead it is 2020 democrats showing support for candidates. >> lets elect those guys and everybody else who is running as a democrat. >> reporter: fighting to flip control of both general assembly chambers narrowly controlled by republicans. and here in mississippi there is an additinal hurdle for the candidates for governor. it is not enough to simply win the popular vote. the candidate also has to win the major...

The whole thing about bipartisanship in new jersey cant be understood unless you know christie cut deals with key democrats. in fact, when he ran against jon corzine, the democrat, when corzine was running for re-election, there was a very unusual low turnout among democrats that we hadnt seen before in new jersey. >> did he make the turn? did he make the turn, is he coming back now from what you heard last night, what the assemblywoman said? >> i think hes trying to. i think hes in shock. usual...

Following, our ed lavandera on the ground there. this is really a standoff at the state capitol, weve just been notified that one of the people trying to get into the state capitol, democratic representative cohen, trying to get into the building there. but we understand that there are officials inside that have forcibly removed protesters who are inside the state capitol building, and it is essentially on lockdown, as they deny anyone to go in and out of that building. all of this around the co...

It has backed off slowly because the ante chamber outside the assembly chambers was full of people, those protesters i understand according to reports are being carried out one by one, so but the people that are in the immediate hallway outside the majority leader seuters office and jeff fitzgeralds office are up against our door, vowing not to leave and saying this is the last ground they are going to hold this ground. jon: all right, the state of wisconsin with a live update. thanks. martha: l...

>> shep: police dragging several protestors out of a hallway clearing the assembly or clearing the odor doorway to the assembly chamber. last night they passed the anti-union legislation through a parliamentary maneuver without a number of missing democrats. now, they need in to vote on the measure but they need to get through the door first. mike tobin, there is death threats? >> reporter: its been publicized there was death threats against the senate majority leader but were reports that there...

Is taking place inside the capitol is our own bill kirkos, a cnn producer, who says that they are stuck inside. that some people were forcibly escorted outside, but for the most part now everyone who is inside that building is trapped. want to go to bill first. bill, what do we -- what is taking place where you are? >> well, suzanne, about 20 minutes ago they started, maybe close to half hour ago, they started to forcibly remove the roughly three dozen protesters who had made camp here all night...

Jagler a spokesman nor the assembly speaker jeff fitzgerald. its my understanding, john, that youre trapped inside your offices there? >> yeah we were, it was difficult to get in. we needed state trooper escort to get in. we have a hallway that is outside of the assembly chambers where the vote was supposed to happen at 11:00 today the final vote on all of this and the protesters blocked it all off. they refused to leave. they had to be carried out. i had to walk into the office literally steppi...