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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
Photos of the Week (03/03/13)
1) In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during his last Angelus noon prayer, from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Benedict XVI gave his pontificate's final Sunday blessing from his studio window to the cheers of tens of thousands of people packing St. Peter's Square, but sought to reassure the faithful that he wasn't abandoning the church by retiring to spend his final years in prayer. The 85-year-old Benedict is stepping down on Thursday evening, the first pope to do so in 600 years, after saying he no longer has the mental or physical strength to vigorously lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)
2) The full moon is seen above the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, early Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules of the conclave that will elect his successor, allowing cardinals to move up the start date if all of them arrive in Rome before the usual 15-day transition between pontificates. Benedict signed a legal document, issued Monday, with some line-by-line changes to the 1996 Vatican law governing the election of a new pope. It is one of his last acts as pope before resigning Thursday. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
3) Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful for the last time from the balcony of his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo Thursday. Photo: Tony Gentile / Reuters
4) In this image taken from video, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his final message to the assembly of cardinals at the Vatican Thursday Feb. 28, 2013, before he retires in just a few hours. Benedict urged the cardinals to work in unity and promised his "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his successor in a poignant and powerful farewell before he becomes the first pope in 600 years to resign. (AP Photo/Vatican TV)
5) A helicopter carrying Pope Benedict XVI takes off from inside the Vatican on its way to the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. A priest holds a placard in St. Peter's Basilica as the helicopter carrying Pope Benedict XVI passes by on its way out of Vatican City. Photos: Reuters
6) A security contractor hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), checks the mouth of a Honduran immigration detainee before a deportation flight to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Feb. 28, 2013, in Mesa, Ariz. ICE operates four to five flights per week from Mesa to Central America, deporting hundreds of undocumented immigrants detained in Western states of the U.S. With the possibility of federal budget sequestration, ICE released 303 immigration detainees in the past week from detention centers throughout Arizona. Photo: John Moore / Getty Images
7) Jeremy Bush places flowers and a stuffed animal at a makeshift memorial in front of a home where a sinkhole opened up underneath a bedroom late Thursday evening and swallowed his brother Jeffrey in Seffner, Fla. on Saturday, March 2, 2013. Jeffrey Bush, 37, was in his bedroom Thursday night when the earth opened and took him and everything else in his room. Five other people were in the house but managed to escape unharmed. Bush's brother jumped into the hole to try to help, but he had to be rescued himself by a sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
8) Senior Cadet Mark Castelli stands next to a portrait of the late U.S. four-star Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf during Schwarzkopf's funeral service at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Photo: Reuters
9) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hugs former NBA player Dennis Rodman following a basketball game between the Harlem Globetrotters and North Korean University of Physical Education in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Feb. 28. Photo: KCNA via EPA
10) With chants of "Fill the gap!" protesters attempt to bring forward a styrofoam replica of a piece of the Berlin Wall in order to fill a gap created by construction workers in the East Side Gallery, which is the longest still-standing portion of the former Berlin Wall, as police try to block the protesters on March 1, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Sean Gallup / Getty Images
11) Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, left to right, President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner attend the unveiling of a statue of Rosa Parks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27, 2013. Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in segregated Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 1, 1955. Parks' act of defiance and the subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern civil rights movement. Photo: Oliver Douliery / Pool via EPA
12) Rosa Parks, famous for refusing to give up her Alabama bus seat in 1955, was honored last week by US President Barack Obama dedicating a statue of her in Washington. In this handout from The White House, US President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event April 18, 2012 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Pete Souza/White House Photo via Getty Images)
13) San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (right), first lady Michelle Obama and tennis player Serena Williams (left) dance with school children during an event in Chicago to bring physical activity back to schools. Photo: Reuters
14) Minnesota Twins first baseman Justin Morneau, left, runs into a fan and spills his drink while chasing a foul ball against the Toronto Blue Jays during the first inning of an exhibition spring training baseball game against the Minnesota Twins in Dunedin, Fla., on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)
15) People wait for their names to be called to pay for and retrieve their towed cars Thursday at the city tow lot at 3811 W. Lincoln Ave. About 250 illegally parked cars were towed from snow routes between 11 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday, Department of Public Works spokeswoman Sandy Rusch Walton said. Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mark Hoffman
16) Surrounded by snow-frosted trees, a runner makes her way uphill Thursday at Lapham Peak State Park in Delafield. For meteorologists’ records, Thursday was the last day of winter. Photo: Milwauke Journal Sentinel, Mark Hoffman
17) A pair of deer wander through heavy snow Wednesday in Port Washington. Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mark Hoffman
18) Defending champion Dallas Seavey takes off Saturday, March 2, 2013, in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, for the ceremonial start of the 2013 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The race, which will take mushers and dog teams about a thousand miles across the Alaska wilderness, starts Sunday, March 3, 2013, in Willow, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
19) A pair of gloved hands are dwarfed by the furry paws of Boris the Polar Bear at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's animal health care hospital in Tacoma, Wash. Boris underwent a full physical Saturday, at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's animal hospital in Tacoma, Wash., as a team of veterinarians, technicians and staff also performed a root canal and some minor eye surgery on the 27-year-old polar bear. Photo: Dean J. Koepfler / Tacoma News Tribune
20) In this image made from video provided by the St. Charles Animal Control shelter, Biscuit, a 37-pound cat, looks at his cage in the shelter in St. Charles, Mo. At more than two-and-a-half times the size of a normal cat, the shelter says the morbidly obese feline has been put on a diet, but he needs an owner who will closely monitor what he eats.
21) Actress Quvenzhane Wallis eats popcorn in the audience during the Oscars last Sunday. Photo: Chris Pizzello / AP
22) The Racing Italian Sausage was missing, after being swiped from Cedarburg's Winter Festival and last seen barhopping in Cedarburg. The story raises a number of questions: Where else did the sausage go? What did he do? How do we get him back home? The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's website asked readers to create their answer to this question using Photoshop, Paint or another editing tool. Here's an example.
FINALLY, PHOTO ESSAYS...
Photographing survivors of sexual assault.
My baby, not my child.
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