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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 (09/12/10)
Alyson Low, of Fayetteville, Ark., holds a photo of her sister Sara Low as friends and relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks gather for a commemoration ceremony at Zuccotti Park, adjacent to ground zero, on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
U.S. military personnel participate in a candle light service to honor those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at Camp Phoenix, Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi)
With the Capitol in the background, American flags surrounding the Washington Monument fly at half staff in remembrance of the victims of Sept. 11, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)
Anna Sereno, of the Brooklyn borough of New York, holds a photo of her son Arturo Angelo Sereno, as friends and relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks gather for a commemoration ceremony at Zuccotti Park, adjacent to ground zero, on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
New York Governor David Paterson (left), U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie lay roses in the reflecting pool with family members of victims of the 9/11attacks during the annual 9/11 memorial service September 11, 2010 in New York City. People gathered at the World Trade Center site to mark the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. (Photo by Andrew Mills-Pool/Getty Images)
A picture of a victim sits on the edge of a reflecting pool in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks September 11, 2010 in New York City. Thousands gathered to pay a solemn homage on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A man wipes away a tear as he listens to the reading of the names during New York City's September 11th Commemoration Ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
A trumpeter plays Taps on Ground Zero to signify the end of the annual commemoration of the 9/11 terror attacks September 11, 2010 in New York City where family members of victims visited the reflecting pool at Ground Zero. (Photo by Chang W. Lee-Pool/Getty Images)
West Babylon Fire Department firefighter Hassan Hamza bows his head after 9/11 commemorations outside the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2010 in New York City. Hamza was a first responder on 9/11 and lost three friends, two firefighters and one police officer, on that day. Saturday marked the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The Tribute in Lights glow skyward near the World Trade Center site, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
People demonstrate against allowing a mosque near Ground Zero at a rally in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2010 in New York, New York. Today marks the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in which 2752 people were killed. President Obama has designated Saturday a National Day of Service and Remembrance in honor of those who died in the attacks. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Leah Christiani, 21, center, demonstrates during a rally in support of the proposed Islamic center and mosque to be built near Ground Zero in New York, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
The family and friends of Flight 93 passenger John Talignani share a moment at the crash site near the temporary Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pa., at sunset on Friday, Sept 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Blooming Grove, Wis. firefighter Corey Johnson with two companions, not shown, points to a name on a list of victims of the 2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks Friday, September 10, 2010 in Madison, Wis. The list was posted on a wall at Madison Area Technical College where a remembrance ceremony was held. Students along with firefighters, police and other emergency responders attended to read names of victims aloud during the ceremony. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journa, Craig Schreiner)
Pastor Terry Jones, right, f the Dove World Outreach Center arrives at a news conference with an armed escort in Gainesville, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Jones stated that he is going forward with a scheduled burning of copies of the Quran at his church on Saturday, Sept. 11. He would later say he was suspending the burning, for now. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Muslim protesters use a portrait of Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones to burn an American flag outside the American Embassy, in Grosvenor Square, on September 11, 2010 in London, England. Controversial pastor Terry Jones has sparked protests across the world after planning to stage an International Burn a Koran Day on 9/11, the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York. Jones has since postponed the event after sparking international condemnation and protests around the world. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Afghan protesters step on a U.S. flag during a demonstration against the United States, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. Hundreds of Afghans railed against the U.S. and called for President Barack Obama's death at a rally in the capital Monday to denounce an American church's plans to burn the Islamic holy book on 9/11. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
In this photos provided by Chile's government, trapped miner Claudio Yanez talks to his relatives during a video conference at the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Thirty-three miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Chile's government)
A boy runs down a flooded street on September 5, 2010 in Benalla, Australia. Parts of the state were devastated by flood waters when heavy winds and rains inundated the area, causing the worst flooding in over a decade. The State Emergency Service has ordered the evacuation of three Victorian cities and are warning residents that the threat is not yet over. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
People gather on an overlook in order to get a view of a wildfire that burns outside of Boulder, Colo. on Wednesday Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/ Matt McClain)
Burned cars and property are seen on the west side of Detroit, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Wind-whipped flames swept through at least three Detroit neighborhoods, destroying dozens of homes, including many that were vacant, officials said. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Caretaker Florence Dovrey, left, follows Frankie Donison (in wheelchair) as Arlington firefighters rescue them from their flooded home in Woodland Park neighborhood in Arlington, Texas, Wednesday, September 8, 2010. Rain spawned by Tropical Storm Hermine caused flooding in the area. (Joyce Marshall/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT)
An Afghan soldier carries a child with shrapnel wounds to the face to a waiting U.S. Army Task Force Shadow rescue helicopter, minutes after an IED explosion, west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The anti-personnel IED, which also tore the legs off an Afghan man, had been planted to kill or maim Marines on a foot patrol, who responded quickly and applied their own tourniquets to stop the man from bleeding to death. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
In this June 3, 2010 photo, 1st Lt. Timothy Dwyer is strapped into a machine which is designed to test his balance as it takes readings of his mental faculties at the Fort Campbell Army base in Fort Campbell, Ky. Soldiers from the Army's 52nd Ordnance Group based at Fort Campbell have undergone hours of exhaustive cognitive testing in the military's first-of-its-kind study of mild traumatic brain injury. This focus on the soldiers who find and destroy the powerful and deadly weapons is part of a larger effort by the military this year to better track and treat mild brain injuries. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)
As their two sons play mommy and daddy in the family car, Lance CPL Jonathan Shilling and his wife Brandy say goodby to each other at Camp Pendleton, California, Monday, September 6, 2010. The combat rifleman and about 200 other Marines left Camp Pendleton in the early morning hours of Labor Day for a 12-month deployment to Afghanistan. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
A field of marijuana easily visible from the street, as Fresno police investigate the scene of a shooting on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 in Fresno, Calif. An individual was shot while reportedly trying to steal marijuana from the backyard of this home. The victim drove to Roeding Park where the vehicle stopped and the victim was taken to the hospital in very serious condition according to police. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Mark Crosse)
President Barack Obama greets supporters before speaking on the economy at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, WI, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, right, arrives at Queens criminal court with his attorney Daniel Horwitz for a hearing on criminal mischief charges, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, in New York. Slater, accused of cursing out a passenger and sliding down an emergency exit chute, is working on a plea deal. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
A woman lights a lamp at the tomb of Mother Teresa on her 13th death anniversary at Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
An idol of Hindu Lord Ganesh is placed on the seat of a passenger train as it is transported from a workshop, in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The Ganesh festival, when devotees pray to the elephant headed God, begins Sept. 11. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
A young black bear falls from a tree safely into a net Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 after being darted with a tranquilizer near downtown Missoula, Mont. A crew from Northwestern Energy helped hold the net with officials from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The bear, a 70-pound yearling, had been roaming near downtown before being chased into the tree. (AP Photo/Missoulian, Kurt Wilson)
This picture taken on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, and released on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, shows giant panda Hua Zui Ba carrying one of her two panda cubs born at Madrid's Zoo on Sept. 7, 2010. The female giant panda was artificially inseminated. (AP Photo/Spanish National Research Council)
Kutai, a male Sumatran orangutan, eats in the new orangutan exhibit at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. The Sumatran orangutan is endemic to Sumatra island and is particularly restricted in the north of the island.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)
A Common Tiger butterfly visits flowers in bloom at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
A stick mantis cleans its legs while perched on Savannah Perry's hand during Bugfest in the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh on Saturday, September 11, 2010. RAY BLACK III, Charlotte Observer.
A cat eyes a squirrel as it makes it's way along a fence in Ormond Beach Fla., Wednesday morning, September 8, 2010. Cat and squirrel parted without incident. (AP Photo/Daytona Beach News-Journal, Jim Tiller)
What a whopper! Angler Raphael Biagini got the surprise of his life when he landed this gigantic koi carp on a fishing trip to France. At 30lb it's thought to be the largest of its kind ever caught in the wild. Photo: The Daily Mail
Josh Oglesby rips the helmet off San Jose State's Vince Buhagiar while making a block. Wisconsin, a 38-point favorite, stumbled to a 27-14 victory Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium. Milwuakee Journal Sentinel photo: Benny Sieu
Bryce Tome, 9, from Franklin, WI finds Pokeman cards a deal at $3 a piece at St. Martin's Fair last Sunday in Franklin. He said they would normally sell for $11 in stores. Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood
A Pakistani schoolchild walks past a building damaged by Tuesday night's bombing in Kohat, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. A car bomb ripped through a police compound killing 18 people, including 14 women and children and four officers, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the country. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
In this Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 photo, English as a Second Language teacher Allie Abel interacts with her students while using a nursery rhyme during a lesson at North Casper Elementary School in Casper, Wyo. (AP Photo/Casper Star-Tribune, Dan Cepeda)
Joy Wilson, right, gets an 80th birthday hug from Jazmine Rosas, 7, while stopping traffic outside Helms Elementary Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, in Houston. The 350 students from Helms surprised Wilson with a birthday song and flowers to celebrate her 80th birthday and 35 years as a crossing guard. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
Bristol Palin in a publicity shot for Dancing With The Stars with partner Mark Ballas.ABC photo.
Kendall Jackson wine educator Gilian Handleman samples raw oysters during the 14th annual Kendall Jackson heirloom tomato festival, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in Santa Rosa, Calif. (AP Photo/The Press Democrat, Kent Porter)
Khagendra Thapa Magar, the worlds smallest teenager at 22 inches tall visits Ripley's Believe It or Not on September 7, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)
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