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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 (01/29/12)
1) (left) President Barack Obama talks with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer after arriving at
2) House Speaker John Boeher begins to tear up after accepting Gabrielle Giffords resignation, Jan. 25. Photo: MSNBC
3) Students leave notes on a cardboard cutout of former Penn State Football coach Joe Paterno in the Pattee and Paterno Libraries on the campus of Penn State on Jan. 24. Photo: Patrick Smith / Getty Images. A newspaper with the headline re-written, is left in remembrance around a statue of
4) Divers make their way into a flooded cabin of the Costa Concordia that is grounded off the Tuscan
5) Members of counternarcotics police destroy a cocaine production laboratory in Puerto Concordia, Meta, Colombia, 25 January 2012, during an operation against FARC drug trafficking infrastructures, in which 17 laboratories were destroyed in southeastern jungles. Two planes, 22 boats, 692 kilograms of coca paste and 13 tons of substances used to produce the drug were seized and 10 people were arrested during the operation. Photo: Mauricio Duenas / EPA
6) Participants in a parade to honor Iraq War veterans make their way along a downtown street Saturday, Jan. 28, in
7) Austin Tseng watches her doctor perform an ultrasound imaging on her "dragon baby" at the Adventist Hospital in Taipei on January 18, 2012. Some believe that babies born in the auspicious Year of the Dragon in the 12-year zodiac cycle are gifted with prodigious quantities of luck and strength. (Wally Santana/Associated Press)
8) A visitor to the 'Hall of Names' in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in
9) These photos show Stephen Slevin, on the left, in Aug. 2005, at the time of his arrest for drunken driving, and on the right in May 2007, shortly before being released from solitary confinement. A federal jury has awarded $22 million to Slevin, a
10) A general view of the aurora borealis near the city of
11) Members of the Wildlife Rescue Unit of Sabah's Wildlife Department pet a newly rescued baby elephant in Lahad Datu in
12) Japanese wild monkeys enjoy an open-air hot spring at the Jigokudani (Hell's Valley) Monkey Park, at Yamanouchi in Nagano prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 24, 2012. Photo: Jiji Press via AFP - Getty Images
13) Swedish brown bear Fred is pictured at his enclosure of the Naturund Umweltpark Guestrow animal park on Jan. 27 in Guestrow, northeastern
14) Here's a baby sea lion in the
15) Ever see a lilac-breasted roller? The photo was takne in
16) Lilly Earp, 8, changes the diaper of her five-week-old sister Emily, Jan. 25, 2012, in their apartment at Hope Gardens Family Center, a homeless shelter for women and children, run by Union Rescue Mission on 77 acres of countryside on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Calif. Photo: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
17) Gennady Sayevich, 79, carries bundles of hay at his house in the village of Tatarka, Belarus, some 106 miles east of Minsk, Jan. 22. Sayevich, the last villager in the abandoned village, surrounded with marsh and forest, lives alone, where the nearest populated village is about 5 miles away. Photo: Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters
18) Paul Cook, left, and Al Anderson, both of Madison, do their best to rescue a sinking shanty from Lake Mendota off the shore of Mendota Park in the Town of Westport, Wis., Wednesday, Jan. 25. The shanty, used for the men's casual ice hockey group called "The Iceholers," began sinking due to a recent thaw and then froze in place. Anderson and Cook said they planned to use a system of lumber framing and come-alongs to hoist the shanty out of the water, suspending it until the ice refroze underneath it. Photo:Michael P. King / AP
19) Visitors photograph various custom designed coffins, during the "Death - Festival for the Living" exhibit, at the Royal Festival Hall in
20) NFL cheerleaders appear at an event in
21) YIKES! Would you take her home to meet Mom? Mexican tattoo star Mary Jose Cristerna, better known as "La Mujer Vampiro" (Female Vampire), poses during a tattoo exhibition in
AND FINALLY,
22) This new "Blue Marble" image of Earth was produced by the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite: Suomi NPP. The composite image was assembled from image data captured from a number of swaths of Earth's surface on Jan. 4. The NPP satellite was renamed "Suomi NPP" on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the


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