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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 (07/15/12)
1) Lightning strikes over a barn surrounded by a soybean crop in
2) Penn State student Jessica Knoll begins to cry as she watches the televised news conference held by former FBI director Louis Freeh after the release of his report on the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal in the HUB building on the main campus in State College, Pa., Thursday, July 12, 2012. Freeh's investigation found that senior
3) Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a speech to the NAACP annual convention, Wednesday, July 11, 2012, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
4) U.S. President Barack Obama is pictured during a heavy rain storm at a campaign rally in Glen Allen,
5) Reuters photographer Lucy Nicholson secured rare access to San Quentin state prison,
6) Benjamin, 8, Alana, 10, and Sara Lesczynski (L-R), 8, of New York, hold "Big Gulp" drinks while protesting the proposed "soda-ban," that New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has suggested, outside City Hall in New York on Monday. Under the proposed law, sugar drinks with no nutritional value would be banned from sale in
7) A woman using her smart phone is illuminated by a battery powered street lamp in Santa Rita do Sapucai, Brazil. An innovative program allows inmates at the Santa Rita do Sapucai medium-security prison to shave days off their sentence in exchange for riding stationary bikes hooked up to converted car batteries that are used to illuminate the town square. Photos: Felipe Dana / AP
8) Photographers aim their cameras as the sun sets through the buildings on 42nd Street in Manhattan during a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge on July 11, 2012. Manhattanhenge, sometimes known as the Manhattan Solstice, occurs when the setting sun aligns with east-to-west streets of the main street grid. Photo: Julio Cortez / AP
9) Painting supervisor Kevin McSweeney walks out onto one of the cables on the George Washington Bridge to inspect the painting operations in Fort Lee, NJ, on July 10. Photo: John Munson / The Star-Ledger
10) A fighting cow leaps over bull runners in the Plaza de Toros following the first Running of the Bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona on July 7. After the bull run, runners remain in the bullring and small fighting cows are released. (Joseba Etxaburu/Reuters)
11) Aloitadores struggle with wild horses during Shearing of the Beasts in Sabucedo, some 25 miles from Santiago de Compostela, on July 9, 2012. Hundreds of wild horses were rounded up from the mountains to be trimmed and marked. Photo: Miguel Riopa / AFP - Getty Images
12) Veterinary students Nicole Bayless, left, and Megan Richards, along with technician Janet Pezzi, prepare an African lion named Tsavo for cancer treatment at the University of Tennessee's Veterinary Medical Center in Knoxville, Tenn. The 11-year-old big cat is undergoing radiation treatment for a large tumor near its mouth. Photo: Amy Smotherman Burgess / Knoxville News Sentinel via AP
13) A Syrian brown bear eats an ice block of frozen fruits, vegetables and fish to cool off from the heat at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, July 12, 2012. Temperatures in Tel Aviv reached as high as 34 Celsius (93.2 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
14) Penguins swim in the newly-opened Polar Adventure at the Ocean Park, a tourist attraction in Hong Kong Thursday, July 12, 2012. The theme park said it launched Asia’s first themed area integrating presentations of Arctic and Antarctic animals, including penguins, walruses, spotted seals, sea lions, snowy owls and arctic foxes. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
15) This photo taken through a pane of glass shows a newborn red vari lemur with his mother at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany, Thursday, July 12, 2012. The lemurs originate from Madagascar and this is the first time babies have been born in this zoo. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
16) Pogo, a silky terrier likes to ride up front and take in the view as his owners Al and Betty Carroll take her for a ride through Riverside Park Thursday, July 12, 2012 in Victoria, Texas. The park in Victoria, Texas is a popular local destination where the Guadalupe River winds through the park. (AP Photo/The Victoria Advocate, Frank Tilley)
17) Olympic Rings which have been mown into the grass by shire horses, at Richmond Park, in London. The Rings which are approximately 300 meters wide and over 135 meters tall, are visible on the Heathrow flight path, ready to welcome athletes and visitors to the London 2012 Games.
The photos were made available July 9 by the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).
18) Nine alphajets from the French Air Force Patrouille de France release trails of blue, white and red smoke, colors of French national flag, as they fly over Louvre museum and the Louvre Pyramid during the Bastille Day military parade in Paris, on July 14. Photo: Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP - Getty Images
19) Tim Propst, of Lincoln County, N.C., throws a hammer during the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in Linville, N.C., Friday, July 13, 2012. Photo: Chuck Burton/AP
20) A competitor in the World Snuff Championships takes her snuff in Peutenhausen, southern Germany. Photo: Lukas Barth / AP
21) Fareed Lafta and Kent Couch (L) lift off from Couch's Stop & Go Mini Mart in Bend, Oregon, July 14. The two men, sitting in lawn chairs tied to a cluster of 350 helium-filled balloons lift-off in a bid to break the Guinness World Record for the longest two-man cluster balloon flight. Photo: Dan Cook/Reuters
22) Denton Allen, 2, rides a sheep as his father Dustin Allen catches him during the 2012 Silver State Stampede mutton busting event at the Elko County Fairgrounds in Elko, Nev. on July 12, 2012. Photos: Ross Andreson/AP
23) Kids play in the pit during the annual Mud Day at Nankin Mills recreation complex in Westland, Michigan, on Tuesday. The mud pit contains 180 metric tons of clean fill dirt with 76,000 liters of water. Photo: Jeff Kowalsky / EPA
24) A tourist reacts as he plays in mud during the opening day of the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in Boryeong, about 190 km (118 miles) southwest of Seoul, on July 14. About 2 to 3 million domestic and international tourists visit the beach during the annual festival, according to the festival organisation. Photo: Lee Jae-Won / Reuters
25) A street performer dressed as American superhero Thor performs during a protest near Mexico City's main plaza, the Zocalo, Friday, July 13, 2012. Street performers, many dressed in costumes, gathered to protest in the historic downtown area where once they were allowed to perform but are now run off by police. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
26) A participant poses with his body paintings during the 15th World Bodypainting Festival in Poertschach on July 8, 2012. Some 30,000 visitors are expected at the three-day event, with over 200 artists from 40 countries showing off their creations in the hope of taking home a prestigious World Award, the equivalent of a world championship title. Photo: Alexander Klein / AFP - Getty Images
27) Dachshunds dressed for the occasion, Dee Dee, foreground left, and her cousin Clifford, foreground right, are held by their owner Valerie Diker, as they and other dogs and people wait for the start of the most expensive wedding for pets Thursday July 12, 2012 in New York. The black tie fundraiser, where two dogs were "married", was held to benefit the Humane Society of New York. Dee Dee and Clifford were part of the wedding party. Photo: Tina Fineberg / AP
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