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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 (3/8/09)
Anthony Bellantoni joins a line of hundreds of people at a job fair sponsored by Monster.com on Thursday, March 5, 2009 in New York. Bellantoni, of Stamford, Conn., is looking for work in administrative support. The number of new jobless claims and the total number of people receiving unemployment benefits both dropped more than expected last week, though they remain at elevated levels and are unlikely to fall substantially in the coming months. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Wheelchair bound Sarah Olson wheels a wagonload of donated food home from an aid distribution site March 5, 2009 in Hugo, Colorado. Eastern Colorado has been hit hard by the recession, as the agricultural economy was already in trouble due to more than a decade of drought. The Care and Share food bank trucks food to the rural community once a month to aid a growing number of residents in need. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
An American flag flies over a tent at a homeless tent city on March 5, 2009 in Sacramento, California. Sacramento's tent city is seeing an increase in population as the economy worsens with more people becoming unemployed and having their homes slip into foreclosure. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
First lady Michelle Obama, second from the right, hands out meals during her visit to Miriam's Kitchen in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2009. The center provides meals, case management services and housing support to nearly 250 men and women in Washington.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
A sign is shown near the dock Monday March 2, 2009 in Clearwater, Fla., where four men, two current NFL players, and two former University of South Florida football players, left from to go fishing Saturday morning and haven't been seen or heard from since. The U.S. Coast Guard is searching a 3,000 square-mile area in the Gulf of Mexico for the missing boaters Marquis Cooper, Corey Smith, Will Bleakley, and Nick Schuyler. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
A note to call the Clearwater police sits on the windshield of a pickup truck and boat trailer owned by NFL player Marquis Cooper parked at the Seminole St. boat ramp in Clearwater, Fla., Monday morning March 2, 2009. Cooper, Corey Smith, Nick Schuyler, and Will Bleakley haven't been seen since of heard from since they left to fishing Saturday morning. The U.S. Coast Guard is searching a 3,000 square-mile area in the Gulf of Mexico for the missing boaters. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Nick Schuyler is wheeled into Tampa General after being transported by a helicopter in Tampa, Fla on Monday March 2, 2009. The Coast Guard says former University of South Florida player Schuyler was rescued Monday off the Florida coast. Authorities say Cooper, Detroit Lions free agent Corey Smith and former South Florida player, William Bleakley, remain missing. (AP Photo/St. Petersburg Times, Alexandra Zayas)
Members of missing fisherman Corey Smith's family embrace after being told the the search for the three missing fishermen will be suspending at sunset after meeting with officials at the U.S. Coast Guard station in St. Petersburg, Fla., Tuesday March 3, 2009. NFL players Marquis Cooper, Corey Smith, and former University of South Florida football player Will Bleakley, have not been seen since they left to go fishing early Saturday morning. A fourth man, Nick Schulyer, also formerly of the University of South Florida, was rescued earlier clinging to an overturned boat. The Coast Guard is searching a 3,000 square-mile area in the Gulf of Mexico for the missing boaters. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
More than 300 people gather at St. Monica Catholic Church in Whitefish Bay on Monday night to mourn for Madison Kiefer. The 15-year-old Whitefish Bay girl was found dead last weekend. “She was always smiling,” said one friend. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood
Mike Kiefer addresses the congregation with his children, Hailey, Bryce and Chloe at Madison Kiefer's funeral Friday. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo: Gary Wood
Relatives of prison inmates wait for news outside a state prison during a riot in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. A fight between gangs after a conjugal visit at a state prison in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has left at least 20 prisoners dead and seven others injured, police said. (AP Photo)
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Lisa Pagan sits with her children, Elizabeth, 4, and Eric, 3, at their home in Davidson, North Carolina. Pagan is among thousands of former service members who have left active duty since the Sept. 11 attacks, only to be recalled to service. She filed several appeals, arguing that because her husband travels for business, no one else can take care of her kids.The Davidson mother who reported for Army duty with her two young children will be discharged from the military, her attorney said Monday. CHUCK BURTON – ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO
A U.S. soldier shakes hands with an Iraqi girl in a school yard as troops distributed humanitarian aid in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 1, 2009. (KHALID MOHAMMED, ASSOCIATED PRESS / March 1, 2009)
U.S. service members take an oath of citizenship during their naturalization ceremony at al-Faw Palace at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. 251 troops from 65 countries became U.S. citizens at the ceremony. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Georgia National Guard PFC Joseph Barringer of Fort Benning, Ga. spends a moment with his wife Rasheedah before he marches in a sendoff parade and ceremony Tuesday March 3, 2009 in Springfield, Ga. Barringer is part of Alpha Battery of the First Battalion 118 Field Artillery Regiment. The regiment is heading to Mississippi for training before deploying to Afghanistan this spring with the Georgia National Guard's 48th Brigade. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
Family members of slain police officers mourn at a funeral in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. At least a dozen men ambushed Sri Lanka's cricket team with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers Tuesday, converging on the squad's convoy as it drove through a traffic circle near an eastern Pakistani stadium. Terrorists killed six police officers and a civilian. Six players of the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team were injured too. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lays a wreath during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Clinton, on her first Mideast visit as the top U.S. diplomat, says the U.S. will work closely with any new Israeli government. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
An assistant shows the mock 'reset' button that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed over to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 6, 2009. Clinton handed Lavrov the block with a red button marked "reset" in English and "overload" in Russian, a reference to a speech by new US Vice-President Joe Biden in January signalling that the Obama administration wanted vastly improved ties with Russia. (AP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini, Pool)
The shadow of a cemetery worker is cast on reclaimed gravestones in London City Cemetery on March 2, 2009 in London, England. The cemetery is piloting a scheme whereby graves over 75 years old become eligible for reclamation. New interments will be placed into the existing graves, the headstones will be turned around and re-used, carving the names of the newly deceased. Once a grave has been earmarked by English heritage the cemetery must wait one year to see if family members claim the existing grave. By conserving as many memorials as possible the City of London hopes to maintain the historic cemetery landscape and sustain buriel provisions for the future. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Belarusian police academy cadets hold white doves as they prepare to release them, during a ceremony on the National Police Day, in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., second from left, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Barbara Lee, D- Calif., left, and members of the CBC , from third from left, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., applaued during the unveiling of the portrait of the late New York Rep. Shirley Chisholm, marking the 40th anniversary of Congresswoman Chisholm's swearing in as a Member of the House of representatives, Tuesday, March 3, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. In 1968, Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to Congress. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Actor Brad Pitt stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., prior to their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2009, to discuss Pitt's project for affordable, environmentally-sustainable housing for low-income residents of the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Actor Rubiana Ali washes her clothes outside her home on March 3, 2009 in Mumbai, India. Rubiana starred in the Academy Award-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire'. (Photo by Ritam Banerjee/Getty Images)
Milwaukee girl Indigo Dawn Lubotsky, 6, salutes President Barack Obama as he waits to depart the White House. Indigo was on a tour of the White House as part of a family vacation. Photo: getty Images
Former President George H. W. Bush fights back tears as he comments on calls he received after former First Lady Barbara Bush's open heart surgery at Methodist Hospital in Houston on Thursday March 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato)
A climate change protester hurled a cup of green slime over British Business Secretary Lord Peter Mandelson in a shocking security breach Friday. Leila Deen from campaign group Plane Stupid was allowed to walk up to Mandelson unchalleneged and threw the green custard in his face. As he recoiled in shock, Deen calmly walked off still carrying her polysterene coffee cup. First photo taken from Sky News video. Second photo supplied by the aptly named group, Plane Stupid.
The White House grounds in Washington are cleared of snow in front of the West Wing, Monday, March 2, 2009, as a snow storm moved up the East Coast. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Russian traditionally dressed girls fight during a competition in the village of Shuvalovka, outside St.Petersburg on February 28, celebrating a shrovetide, a farewell to winter. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV, AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
No farewell to winter here. Noel Spangler shovels in front of his home in the 2800 block of N. Hackett Ave. Monday. Heavy lake effect snowfall blanketed several areas of Milwaukee. Journal Sentinel photo: Michael Sears
Ulysses Swift Sr., 75, catches his breath while shoveling out a fire hydrant in front of his Bay View home. Swift says he regularly shovels out the hydrant in front of his 85-year-old neighbor's home. Ulysses had no idea snow was in the forecast and was quite surprised when his wife awoke him and let him know they had to shovel snow. Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff
Winter isn't everywhere. Crocuses blossom at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Tuesday March 3, 2009.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
A white Bengal tiger licks a block of ice as it is given to beat the summer heat at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
An elephant is pulled down into water by a mahout,a traditional elephant trainer, to beat the summer heat at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok , Thailand, Wednesday March 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
An undated handout photo released by SeaWorld San Diego shows an image from a new live video feed that allows penguin enthusiasts to watch SeaWorld's colony of 250 flightless birds at at SeaWorld San Diego's Penguin Encounter anytime on SeaWorld's Penguin cam. (AP Photo/via SeaWorld)
This year-old sea lion was recently rescued in Solana Beach in California and after 20 days of R & R with SeaWorld's animal rescue team was released miles off Mission Beach. And yet, Tuesday night it turned up one-mile inland, east of the Del Mar race track -- a baffling journey through a shopping center, past fast-food outlets and across a busy street. - SeaWorld courtesy photo.
Mavrick, a 14-month-old male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin tries to go eye to eye with Akaasha, a six-month-old female Bengal tiger at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Park animal staff strolled by the dolphin exhibit as they escorted the tiger cubs on their daily walk around the park. (AP Photo/Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Nancy Chan)
This March 4, 2009 photo released by the Northeastern Nevada Wildlife Rehabilitation Center shows Pete Bradley, a biologist from the Nevada Dept. of Wildlife, holding an injured golden eagle in Springs Creek, Nev. The 13-pound bird with a 7-foot wing span busted through the passenger side of a Florida truck driver's semi Monday , March 2, 2009, in northeast Nevada. One side of the birds head is swollen, but there does not appear to be any permanent damage. (AP photo/Northeastern Nevada Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Lance Dean)
Billings firefighters Ben Jares and Brandon Fleury head out on an ice reescue sled and break the ice around Duke, a St. Bernard dog who was frozen to the ice on a pond at Peter Yegen, Jr. Golf Club in Billings, Mont. Friday, March 6, 2009. Firefighters believed the dog had fallen in during the night, then became frozen to the ice by his tail after climbing out. Despite suffering from the cold and exhaustion, Duke was treated at a vet clinic and released to his owners that afternoon. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, Casey Riffe)
A man herds ducks for sale along a sidewalk in Bogota, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
George the Bulldog waits to go in the show ring on day two of the annual Crufts dog show at the National Exhibition Centre on March 6, 2009 in Birmingham, England. During this year's four-day competition nearly 23,000 dogs and their owners will vie for a variety of accolades but ultimately seeking the coveted 'Best In Show'. Amid controversy over the breeding and welfare of dogs the main sponsors Pedigree and the BBC have this year dropped out of the world's biggest dog show. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
A Matschie's Tree Kangaroo, the only one at the Singapore Zoo is seen in the Fragile Forest section which houses animals in danger of extinction on Monday March 2, 2009 in Singapore. Papua New Guinea, long derided for allowing widespread illegal logging, has created a conservation areas the size of Singapore to protect the bear-like, tree kangaroos and other endangered species, a conservation group said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
A mountain lion peers down from a tree near Spooner. DNR officials hope to capture the 110- to 120-pound male and attach a radio collar. Photo: Matt McKay, Wisconsin DNR
Andrzej Zdrojewski works on a wooden model of a Harley Davidson Model J 1921 motor bike in his workshop in Lukow, Eastern Poland. Zdrojewski, a Harley Davidson fan makes wooden replicas of bikes and other Harley Davidson gadgets. (AP/ALIK KEPLICZ)
June Pearce, 84, rides on the back of Ron Borowski's motorcycle in Okeechobee, Fla., March 6, 2009. Ron gave June a ride on his bike as a surprise birthday present. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
Miller Park ground crew member Brent Grinsteiner is surrounded by blue sky and green grass as the stadium's roof was retracted Friday afternoon for an unseasonably gorgeous day. The Brewers' home opener is April 10, still more than a month away. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo: Jack Orton
Team USA’s Ryan Braun (18) of the Milwaukee Brewers is introduced before a spring baseball game against the New York Yankees in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday. AP photo
An unidentified naked man sits atop a cross on the West Bethel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles as fire paramedics and police try to talk him down on Sunday March 1, 2009. He eventually came down from the cross. (RICHARD VOGEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS / March 1, 2009)
Robert Burck, a.k.a. the "Naked Cowboy," sings while standing on a small clear patch of concrete in the middle of Times Square Monday, March 2, 2009 in New York. A Nor'easter, which dumped up to 8 inches of snow in parts of the city, did not deter Burck from performing for a short while. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Not quite as naked, a model displays a creation as part of the Versace Fall/Winter 2009/10 women's collection during Milan Fashion Week March 2, 2009. Photo: Reuters
A model shows a creation part of the Agatha Ruiz De La Prada Fall/Winter 2009/2010 fashion collection shown in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A model displays a creation by fashion design students of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana during a fashion show in Medellin, Colombia, Friday, March 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)
US singer Tina Turner, performs on stage, during a concert at the O2 Arena, in London, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Revelers wearing masks during a parade through the streets of Basel, Switzerland, Monday, March 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt)
A "Rollin Justin" robot, developed by the German air and space agency, the Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR), mixes instant tea at the 2009 CeBIT technology trade fair on March 4, 2009 in Hanover, Germany. CeBIT, the world's largest computer and IT trade fair, will run from March 3-8. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
The living room area of Barbie's Real-Life Malibu Dream House is shown in Malibu, Calif., Wednesday, March 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
A shoe closet is featured just outside the bedroom in Barbie's Real-Life Malibu Dream House in Malibu, Calif., Wednesday, March 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
AND FINALLY THIS WEEK...
Gotta love this.Cheese boards are becoming more common in Milwaukee restaurants. Diners can savor this great food as an appetizer or a main course. Milwaukee Journal sentinel photo: Rick Wood.
And a leftover that should have been included in last week's blog:
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