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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.

Franklin: Garbagetown


That’s what Franklin appeared to be for a period of almost 48 hours.

Did you put out your garbage anytime Monday, Memorial Day, expecting regular pickup the next day? In the neighborhoods I drove through, it seemed 50% or more of households plopped their trash at the end of the driveway.

And it sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, until sometime today, in some cases, for two straight days.

When a holiday falls on a Monday, Franklin garbage detail on Tuesday’s doesn’t occur until Wednesday. So the garbage sat there, in the wind and rain, for two days.

End of the world? No, but the neighborhoods certainly didn’t look, well, suburban.

The city is not to blame. Franklin has done more than its share of informing citizens of the routine

So, remember Franklin, the day after Labor Day….

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