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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 (06/06/10)
An image made from video provided by BP PLC shows oil continues to erupt from the remains of their oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico early Monday May 31, 2010. After their latest attempt to plug the leak failed, BP is look into other means of dealing with the leak. (AP Photo/BP PLC)
Beach goers stare at at pools of oil which washed up on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Friday, June 4, 2010 just west of the Alabama Gulf State Park Pier. (AP Photo/Press-Register, Bill Starling)
In this June 4, 2010 photo, the feet of Rebecca Thomasson, of Knoxville, Tenn., are covered in oil after walking along the beach as oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill washes ashore in Gulf Shores, Ala. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)
A clean-up worker picks up blobs of oil with absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Friday, June 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A brown pelican coated in heavy oil tries to take flight June 4, 2010 on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is coming ashore in large volumes across southern Louisiana coastal areas. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
A bird flies above oil on the Gulf of Mexico off of East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A helicoptor carrying Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal flies over the oil-impacted beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
US President Barack Obama speaks alongside Florida Governor Charlie Crist (L), US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen (2nd L), who is in charge of the Federal Response to the oil spill, White House energy advisor Carol Browner (2nd R), and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) during a briefing with officials at the Tarmac Field House at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4, 2010. Obama traveled to the Gulf Coast, his third trip to the region following the oil spill from BP's Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
A sinkhole created by tropical storm Agatha covers a street intersection in dowtown of Guatemala City on Sunday, May 30, 2010. Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season pounded Central America and southern Mexico, triggering deadly landslides.(AP Photo/STR)
Residents watch from a bridgeas people try to remove a tree trunk to prevent it from damaging the bridge in La Libertad, south El Salvador, Sunday, May 30, 2010. Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season, tropical storm Agatha, pounded Central America and southern Mexico, triggering deadly landslides. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)
A scavenger carries plastic bottles salvaged from a garbage dump in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 3, 2010. World Environment Day 2010 which fell on Saturday called for an urgent need to conserve the diversity of life on earth. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
TV reporter Bridget Naso of KUSI interviews a U.S. Marine during operation "Dawn Blitz" at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Friday, June 4, 2010. About 5,000 Marines and Navy sailors participated in the largest amphibious exercise on the West Coast since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
An Afghan boy reaches out to greet Canadian soldiers with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, as they patrol the area around Salavat, Panjwayi district, south-west of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
US soldiers pray during a Memorial Day ceremony at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 31, 2010. Memorial Day commemorates US men and women who died while in the military service. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Maria Juarez, left, of Killeen, Texas, watches her grandson Joel Hernandez, 2, kiss the gravestone of his aunt and Maria's daughter Diana Mota at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen, Texas on Sunday May 30, 2010. Diana Mota was killed be her husband Gilberto Mota in 2008 in a murder-suicide shortly after both of them returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
A veteran who said he is know by the name "Traveler" of Pennsylvania prays over the name of his friend Carol Drazba, at Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington Sunday, May 30, 2010. Traveler said Drazba was one of very few women who died in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
William N. Herrera an Army veteran from Nokesville, Va., takes some time at the grave of his wife, Kathleen, on Sunday, May 30, 2010, at Quantico National Cemetery in Triangle, Va. She was buried three years ago and there were a lot fewer tombstones in the area, said Herrera. (AP Photo/News & Messenger, Aleks Dolzenko)
Brenna Stodden, 3, keeps herself entertained by swinging on one of the nearly 700 flag poles at the annual Memorial Day services at Linwood Cemetery, in Dubuque, Iowa, Monday, May 31, 2010. Each American flag represents one soldier from the area killed in combat. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Jeremy Portje)
The funeral procession carrying the body of Navy Lt. John Finn passes through hundreds of sailors who lined the road to the Campo Indian Reservation Cemetery Thursday, June 3, 2010 in El Cajon, Calif. Retired Navy Lt. John Finn, the first American to receive America's highest military award for defending sailors under a torrent of gunfire during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor died Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP Photo/The San Diego Union-Tribune, Ernie Grafton)
This image provided by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library shows Nancy Reagan visiting the gravesite of her husband, President Ronald Reagan, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., Saturday June 5, 2010 on the sixth anniversary of his passing. (AP Photo/Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (C) talks to members of the news media outside the West Wing at the White House after meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama June 3, 2010 in Washington, DC. The two leaders were meeting for the first time since Brewer signed a controversial anti-immigration bill into law April 23. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and U.S. astronaut Timothy J. Creamer, from left, seen shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz TMA-17 space capsule about 150 km ( 80 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. The Soyuz capsule, which carried the three astronauts, safely returned to Earth on Wednesday after a half-year stint on the international space station, with a landing on the Kazakh steppe. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, Pool)
Hundreds of thousands of believers attend mass, during the Corpus Christi celebrations at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City, on June 3, 2010. ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images
Chef Cat Cora, right, cuts greens with Matthew Louhman, 7, from Hollin Meadows Elementary School in Alexandria, Va.,as they prepare a salad from the harvest from the White House Kitchen Garden, Friday, June 4, 2010, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. First lady Michelle Obama called on chefs to get involved by adopting a school and working with teachers, parents, school nutritionists and administrators to help educate kids about food and nutrition.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Marion Karr starts out on his two hour training ride through Yadkin County, training for his trip across North Carolina on a skateboard. Karr wants to raise awareness about Huntersville-based Hinds' Feet Farm, a non-profit activity center for people with brain injuries. Growing up in Concord, Karr was buddies with Marty Foil, now the center's executive director and whose family founded the farm. Karr suffered brain injury and permanent hearing loss in one ear when a car struck him in 1980. He hopes to raise $10,000 for Hinds' Feet Farm on his journey from Asheville to the coast. ROBERT LAHSER - The Charlotte Observer.
Doris Morgan, of Tampa, Fla., playfully attempts to dislodge the Bubble Rock near the summit of South Bubble Mountain, Friday, June 4, 2010, in Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor, Maine. Although thousands of hikers have tried, no one yet has been able to budge the glacial erratic. The boulder was deposited on the precipice by a receding glacier about 10,000 years ago. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Gifford Elementary School four-year-old kindergarteners volley water balloons at principal Steve Russo on Friday, June 4, 2010 in Racine, Wis.. The school's 970 students responded to a fund-raising challenge, selling $8,000 worth of cookie dough and netting the school $3,950 in profit, which Russo said will go mostly toward new playground equipment. The balloon barrage was their reward. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Scott Anderson)
Armando Galarraga covers first base as Cleveland Indians' Jason Donald runs to the base and umpire Jim Joyce looks on. Joyce called the runner safe. Replays showed he was out,. The blown call ruined Galarraga's perfect game. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
The day after his blown call at first base ruined a perfect game, home plate umpire Jim Joyce wipes tears during the exchange of lineup cards between Cleveland Indians bench coach Tim Tolman, left, and Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Italy's Francesca Schiavone kisses the court after defeating Australia's Samantha Stosur during a women's final match for the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
Race goers wait for Britain's Queen Elizabeth to arrive at Epsom Downs Racecourse, Epsom, England, Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Tom Hevezi)
Indian forest officials prepare to rescue a wild elephant, a day after it fell into a well, in Palakkad, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, India, Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo)
A young deer thrashes around inside a ground floor apartment in Grand Forks, N.D. after it crashed through the ground-floor window of Adam Bye's apartment Wednesday and thrashed around before police officers eventually caught and killed it. Authorities say the deer was too badly injured to survive. The animal will be butchered and the meat given to a food pantry. (AP Photo/Grand Forks Herald, John Stennes)
A Rockhopper penguin, walks though a scanner, as zoo keepers, not seen, attract them with fish in order to scan them, in London Zoo, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The photo opportunity was organized to mark the annual process of scanning the birds at London Zoo which has over 16,000 animals, of which almost all are microchipped to aid in their animal husbandry, apart from their small birds and fish. The Rockhopper penguin usually lives in sub-Antarctic islands. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
An Asian Sun Bear is fed an apple by a zoo keeper, at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb., Friday, June 4, 2010. Dennis Pate, the zoo's director, announced Friday a new 174 million dollar expansion plan for the zoo.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
A border collie jumps to catch a Frisbee during the European Disk Dog competition in Mogyorod, Hungary, Sunday, May 30, 2010. The competition is the qualification race for the upcoming Skyhoundz World Championship. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
Miss Ellie celebrates her win in the "World's Ugliest Dog Contest" at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, in Petaluma, Calif. The small, bug-eyed Chinese Crested Hairless dog whose pimples and lolling tongue helped her to also win Animal Planet's "World's Ugliest Dog" contest in 2009, has died at age 17 after a career in resort show business in the Smoky Mountains. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
A pair of Meerkats rest in the shade Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Burrowing owl siblings peek out from their nest at Green Tree Golf Club in Vacaville, Calif., Wednesday, June 2, 2010. (AP/Photo, The Reporter, Rick Roach)
A trained monkey performs tricks on a wooden replica of a racing motorbike made resembling that of Italian MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi's as cyclists ride past in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, May 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Scantily-dressed cyclists, including Greek Green European Parliament Member Michalis Tremopoulos, 2nd left in wig, are seen at a naked bike ride in front of the landmark White Tower in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Friday, June 4, 2010. More than 1,000 people took part in the ride, many in makeup, wigs and strategically-placed accessories. The annual event, the third held in Thessaloniki, was meant to draw attention to the overuse of cars and to highlight the alternative joys of cycling. (AP Photo/Giorgos Nissiotis)
Stephanie Ramirez gives Brian Guidotti a little kiss as they wait for ceremony to start at Salinas High Graduation in Salinas, Calif. on Thursday June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/The Monterey County Herald, Orville Myers)
Madame Tussauds employee Marie Chandler poses for photographers beside a waxwork of The Hulk during the launch of the Marvel Super Heroes 4D exhibit at the Madame Tussauds waxworks in London, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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