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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 (09/05/10)
Hurricane Earl is imaged in this picture from NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15. The satellite has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service. The satellite has demonstrated operational readiness of its subsystems, spacecraft instruments and communications services. GOES-15 is the third and final spacecraft in the GOES N-P Series of geostationary environmental weather satellites. NOAA PHOTO
Astronaut Douglas Wheelock caught this image of the eye of Hurricane Earl as the International Space Station (ISS) passed just to the east on Friday Sept. 3, 2010. Wheelock compared the sight to "magnificent chaos", and called it "incredibly breathtaking". (AP Photo/NASA - Douglas Wheelock)
The owner of a small motel in Buxton, N.C. gives his opinion as Hurricane Earl approaches North Carolina's Outer Banks Wednesday Sept.1, 2010. CHUCK LIDDY - Charlotte Observer
Sea levels remain high throughout the morning Friday , Sept, 3, 2010 as Hurricane Earl lingers offshore of Nags Head, N.C. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Stephen M. Katz)
Kellie Maier laughs after getting splashed by a passing car while kayaking on water covered Hwy 12, on September 3, 2010 in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Hurricane Earl was downgraded to a category 2 before brushing the Outer Banks early Friday morning causing minimal damage. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama delivers an address to the nation on the end of combat operations in Iraq from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on August 31, 2010. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (4thR) eats dinner with troops at the Sports Oasis dining facility at Camp Victory September 1, 2010 in Baghdad, Iraq. Earlier Gates attended a military ceremony signaling a formal end to combat operations in Iraq after seven years of war that claimed more than 4,400 American lives. (Photo by Jim Watson-pool/Getty Images)
With the help of a Marine, left, and a Navy Corpsman, center, Staff Sgt. Audrey Ramos, right, of San Antonio, Texas, a U.S. Army Flight Medic with Task Force Shadow, oversees the evacuation of an Afghan child with multiple gunshot wounds, west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Aeromedical teams with the 101st Airborne's Task Force Destiny provide the fast medical evacuation of those wounded throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
John Slykerman of Cleveland American Legion Post 703 (center) and other members of the Ohio delegation applaud award winners Tuesday at the American Legion Convention in Milwaukee. Journal Sentinel photo: Michael Sears
Construction continues on One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in New York. When completed the building will rise to 1,776 feet (541 meters). Sept. 11 will mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Boats spray water on an oil platform after it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on September 2, 2010 off the coast of Louisiana. The 13 crew members were rescued and some were being treated in a Louisiana hospital. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Bobbing in their flotation devices with arms linked, 13 workers from the Mariner Energy oil platform await rescue after the rig exploded and caught fire Thursday morning. The crew was rescued safely and flown to a hospital in Houma, La. where they were examined and released Thursday evening. KATC-TV
This TV grab taken from a video released Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, by Chile's Government shows one of 33 trapped miners inside the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. The miners, who have been trapped since the shaft they were working in collapsed on Aug. 5, were confirmed to be alive Sunday when they were reached by rescue teams via a small hole through which they could pass messages and see the miners with a camera. (AP Photo/Chile's Government Video)
Meredith Guy,5, of Metairie, looks into a "Katrina casket ," where people placed notes and items, after an Ecumenical "funeral service" for Hurricane Katrina at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Chalmette, La., one day before the fifth anniversary of the storm, which took over 1,000 lives and devastated the region, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Visitors try to stay dry as rain falls on a monument that lists names of victims of Hurricane Katrina who lived in St. Bernard Parish before a memorial service to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the storm in Shell Beach, La., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A woman lies dead on the side of a road with a warning message next to her in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. The message was signed by a group called "The resistance". (AP Photo/Antonio Sierra)
Pakistani children who survived heavy flooding live in miserable conditions at a roadside in Nowshera, near Pesharwar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
A boy along with a dog on an inner tube wades through a flooded road Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in Bago, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) northeast of Yangon, Myanmar. The overflowed water from Bago River submerged the low lying parts of the town as the river reached above its danger level Monday, forcing the residents in low lying areas to abandon their homes. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
Millie Cordero, a second grade student at St. Bridget Catholic School in Manchester Conn., peaks over the edge of the school bus window Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, during the first day of school. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Jim Michaud)
Kindergarten students from Gifford Elementary School in Caledonia meet Chorizo, one of the Milwaukee Brewers racing sausage characters, on Friday. The racing sausages and teachers at the school raced to promote can-do attitudes for the new school year. Photo: Timothy J. Stein for the Journal Sentinel
Minks are seen on the side of a road in Hiliodendro, near the northern Greek city of Kastoria, on Monday, Aug. 30. 2010. More than 50,000 minks were set loose in the area on Friday and Saturday, after raids by suspected animal rights activists on two fur farms. Greece's The National Fur Breeders' Association said most of the released animals are likely to die, adding that the cost to the farm owners could pass Euros 1 million ($1.27 million) despite an effort to recover the animals. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
A squirrel sleeps on a shady branch outside the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
A Crowned Lemur, Eulemur coronatus, in the zoological garden in Dresden, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/dapd/Matthias Rietschel)
A hummingbird hovers near a flower at the W.L Jackson County Park in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Jim Thompson)
Jason Goeckler, of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, ducks to avoid a Silver Carp that came shooting out of the Kansas River near Kansas City, Kansas, July 26, 2006. The non-native fish is becoming common where the Kansas and Missouri Rivers meet. When it senses danger, such as a boat motor, it comes shooting out of the water. (Travis Heying/Wichita Eagle/MCT)
In this one hour exposure photo provided by Steve Irvine, fireflies fly in front of his home in Big Bay, Ontario in Canada. A childhood rite of passage _ catching fireflies in Mason jars and watching them glow _ could be fading along with the dog days of summer. Scientists are busy analyzing a summer's worth of observations of the mesmerizing insects collected by a network of backyard volunteers in hopes of verifying whether anecdotal evidence suggesting the luminous insects are on the decline is correct, and if so, what's behind their shrinking populations. (AP Photo/Courtesy Steve Irvine)
A NASA image shows an area near the North pole of Mars where the landscape is dominated by sand dunes forming a massive erg (sand sea), much like parts of the Sahara Desert on Earth. In parts of the erg, sand is abundant and covers the entire surface. Here near the edge, sand is in shorter supply and the dunes are separated by areas of lighter-toned soil. The image was taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (AP Photo/NASA)
Song Youzhou, chairman of Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment Co. Ltd. looks at his invention, the "Elevated High-Speed Bus" in a scale model on display at an office showroom in Beijing, China, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. The Elevated High-Speed Bus travels on rails and straddles two lanes of traffic, allowing cars to drive underneath its passenger compartment integrated environmental friendly, energy saving, comprehensively solving the problems of urban traffic jam, air pollution in current transportation, according to the company. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A first class cabin is seen on an Airbus A380 aeroplane, the world's largest passenger aircraft, when it landed at Manchester Airport in England for the first time , after arriving on a flight from Dubai, Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. When the CAA Aerodrome Standards Division gave their a approval, the airport joined a select group of only 17 global airports to be certified meaning Manchester becomes the first regional airport in the World to have a regular service by an A380. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010, testicles are cooked in a pot during the so-called 7th annual World Testicle Cooking Championship in the village of Ozrem, some 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of Belgrade, Serbia. At the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship, visitors watch - and sometimes taste, as teams of chefs cook up bull, boar, camel, ostrich and even kangaroo testicles. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
Three-year-old Chloe Arntz of Chugiak, Alaska, gets a look at an entry in the giant pumpkin weigh-off at the Alaska State Fair on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Weighing in at 1,101 pounds, this pumpkin entry by Dale Marshall of Anchorage set a new state record. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News/MCT)
Children take part in the sack race during the Braemar Highland Games at The Princess Royal and Duke of Fife Memorial Park on September 4, 2010 in Braemar, Scotland. The Braemar Gathering is the most famous of the Highland Games and is known worldwide. Each year thousands of visitors descend on this small Scottish village on the first Saturday in September to watch one of the more colourful Scottish traditions. The Gathering has a long history and in its modern form it stretches back nearly 200 years. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Montee Ball crosses the goal line for a third-quarter touchdown run as Wisconsin beat UNLV in Las Vegas Saturday, 41-21. Photo: AP
Members of the Notre Dame football team enter through the student section before an NCAA college football game against Purdue in South Bend, Ind., Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. The Irish won in coach Brian Kelly's debut, 23-12. Chicago Tribune photo.
Chris Mitchell wears a Darth Vader costume and protests with fellow costume characters Superman, The Hulk and The White Ranger at the Los Angeles City Hall on August 31, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. The super hero impersonators were protesting the arrests made by the Los Angeles Police Department of costumed characters along Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. According to the LAPD, officers received reports of tourists being aggressively solicited by the costumed superheroes, resulting in arrests along Hollywood Boulevard. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
A costumed reveller performs in the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Held each August Bank Holiday since 1966, the Notting Hill Carnival is the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Before Lady Gaga's Milwaukee performance, fans gathered to show off their own flair for fashion. Samantha and Allison Novak of Green Bay urged caution with their outfits. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo: Benny Sieu
Lady Gaga performs in Milwaukee Thursday night. Billboard predicts Gaga's tour will gross a whopping $200 million this year. Journal Sentinel photo:Benny Sieu
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