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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), 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 baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.

May 2009 - Posts

You don't pull the mask off the old Lone ranger

By Kevin Fischer
Friday, May 1 2009, 04:13 PM


But apparently you do with Iron Man.

With this type of backdrop, there's no way the sequel can match up to last year's blockbuster.






 

Photos of the Week (5/1/09)

By Kevin Fischer
Friday, May 1 2009, 12:26 PM

Normally featured on Sunday, Photos of the Week is early this week only.

 

City of Milwaukee commissioner of health Bevan K. Baker speaks to the media inside of the Zeidler Building located at 841 N. Broadway Wednesday. Along side Baker is Mayor Tom Barrett (left) and Dr. Seth Foldy, state Public Health Administrator. Officials announced that at the time, at least two probable cases of swine flu had been identified in Milwaukee with a third case in Adams County in central Wisconsin. Journal Sentinel photo: Tom Lynn


 

Journal Sentinel photo: Tom Lynn






Eric Lomas finds the doors at Riverside High School were locked after officials closed the school because of a suspected swine flu case Wedneday. Lomas was hoping to attend a class on making sushi. Journal Sentinel photo: Benny Sieu


 Mexico Swine Flu

Wearing full body protective gear, medics work in the emergency area where people with swine flu-like symptoms are attended at the Naval hospital in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)


 Japan Asia Swine Flu

Quarantine officials with protective masks and outfits rush to board a commercial plane that has just arrived for checking of its passengers at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Across Asia, passengers arriving on flights from North America were being screened at airports using thermal scanners. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)


 Mexico Swine Flu

A doctor takes a nasal swab test for influenza A from Arturo Rincon at a health post where people with swine flu-like symptoms are tested in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)


 Mexico Swine Flu

Nuns wear face masks during a closed door mass at the Metropolitan cathedral in Mexico City, Sunday, April 26, 2009. Churches stood empty Sunday in predominantly Roman Catholic Mexico City after services were canceled, and health workers screened airports and bus stations for people sickened by a new strain of swine flu that experts fear could become a global epidemic.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)


 Mexico Swine Flu

Residents, one wearing a protective mask, walk along an unusually empty intersection in downtown Mexico City, Wednesday April 29, 2009. The World Health Organization has declared a Phase 5 outbreak of swine flu, the second-highest on its threat scale, indicating a pandemic could be imminent.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)


 APTOPIX Swine Flu Texas

Diane Barrera disinfects a classroom at the Golden Rule Charter School in Dallas on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. The charter school in Dallas is temporarily closed as a precaution after officials learned a student probably has the swine flu virus. (AP Photo/LM Otero)


 

 Swine Flu Canada

A pedestrian walks past a sign promoting handwashing to reduce transmission of infection in the lobby of the building housing the offices of the Mexican Embassy, Thursday, April 30, 2009 in Ottawa, Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)


 Philippines Swine Flu

A Filipino man applies oil on a row of roasted pigs to make them more attractive to buyers in Manila, Philippines, on Monday, April 27, 2009. Philippine health officials say the country remains free from swine flu as WHO warns countries around the world to be on alert of any unusual flu outbreaks after the virus was implicated in deaths of several people and an increasing case of infection spread in Mexico. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)


 

 Stringer

Chrysler workers exit from the Chrysler Warren Truck Assembly Plant April 30, 2009 in Warren, Michigan. Chrysler failed to come to an agreement with all of its debt holders by a government imposed deadline and announced they will be filing for bankruptcy and shutting down most of its manufacturing plants until the bankruptcy process is over. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)


 APTOPIX TURKEY MILITANT SHOOTOUT

A wounded man lies motionless on the ground during clashes between Turkish police and one leftist militant in a residential area of Turkey's biggest city, Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, April 27, 2009. The militant, one policeman and one onlooker were killed during more than five hours shootout.(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)




MIDEAST ISRAEL MEMORIAL DAY

An Israeli girl sits next to the grave of a fallen soldier at Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Monday, April 27, 2009. Israel is marking its memorial day on Tuesday for soldiers killed since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)


 PANG BAIL

Danny Pang, founder and former chief executive officer of Private Equity Management Group Inc., attempts to block the view of a photographer as he departs from federal court in Santa Ana, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Pang, who U.S. regulators say defrauded investors in Taiwan, was ordered freed on $1 million bail. Photographer: Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg News


 

American civil rights pioneer and Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, was arrested by Secret Service agents in front of the Sudanese Embassy while demonstrating against the genocide in Darfur, in Washington. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images


 Members of ADAPT, a disability rights group pass the White House April 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. The group is calling on US President Barack Obama to pass the Community Choice Act,  a community-based alternative to nursing homes and institutions for people with disabilities.

Members of ADAPT, a disability rights group pass the White House April 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. The group is calling on President Obama to pass the Community Choice Act, a community-based alternative to nursing homes and institutions for people with disabilities. Photo: Getty Images


 

 South Korea May Day

A South Korean protester paints on his face in an anti-government rally on May Day in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Friday, May 1, 2009. South Korean workers marked May Day with protests demanding better working conditions, protection of farmers and restrictions on the hiring of short-term workers. The banner read "Abolition Short-term workers." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)


 

 May Day images from around the globe - Germany

Participants at a May Day rally wear plastic buttocks and T-shirts that read "Shove your economic stimulus package up that..." in Nuremberg, Germany. Photo: Daniel Karmann / EPA




The Grim Reaper, played by Washington County Sheriff's Deputy Ronald Rewerts, beckons junior Kaylee Rossman while he stalks the classrooms of West Bend East High School. The program titled “Every 15 Minutes”, is aimed at preventing alcohol related traffic injuries and fatalities. Journal Sentinel photo: William J. Lizdas




After being chosen by the Grim Reaper, West Bend student Kaylee Rossman listens while her obituary, written by her parents, is read to her classmates by West Bend Police Capt. Toby Netko. Journal Sentinel photo: William J. Lizdas


 MBR

Protesters hold signs as they stand outside of the main entrance to Fox High School as President Barack Obama speaks inside of the school Wednesday, April 29, 2009, in Arnold, Missouri. (John L. White/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT)


Staff

U.S. President Barack Obama answers a question during a news conference from the East Room of the White House April 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. The news conference marked the 100th day of Obama's presidency. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)


 WASHINGTON - APRIL 28:  U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) arrives for a news conference April 28, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Specter announced that he will switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) arrives for a news conference April 28, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Specter announced that he will switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party. Photo: Getty Images


 Obama

Secret Service agents polish the presidential limousine as they wait for the arrival of President Barack Obama Wednesday, April 29, 2009, in St. Louis.(AP Photo/Tom Gannam)


 APTOPIX NASCAR Talladega Auto Racing

Carl Edwards (99) goes airborne after colliding with Brad Keselowski, bottom, on the final lap of the Aaron's 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala., on Sunday, April 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Glenn Smith)


NASCAR Talladega Auto Racing

Carl Edwards climbs out of his car after crashing on the final lap of the Aaron's 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala., on Sunday, April 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Glenn Smith)


 

 President Barack Obama hosts the start of the 'White House to Light House' Wounded Warrior Soldier's ride on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2009.

President Obama hosts the start of the "White House to Light House' Wounded Warrior Soldier's ride on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2009. Photo: AP


 Cherry Blossoms

Visitors stroll under a canopy of blossoming cherry trees at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in New York, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)


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Amy Pryle, age 3, reacts as a Grey Pansy butterfly lands on her nose at the Natural History Museum's Butterfly Jungle exhibition in London, Thursday, April 30, 2009. The Butterfly Jungle exhibition recreates a living rainforest environment, where tropical butterflies roam freely and other insects are display. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)


 APTOPIX Raccoon Home

A raccoon peers out from a hole in a tree in a ravine in Moreland Hills, Ohio on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)


 

 

Sophia Clementi, 3, and her 4-year-old brother, Nick, try to get the attention of Themba, a 5-year-old male lion, at the Milwaukee County Zoo this week. Journal Sentinel photo: Mike DeSisti




People in Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Switzerland, vote by raising their hands on Sunday, April 26, 2009. Voters have banned naked hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region. By a show of hands citizens of the tiny canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes voted overwhelmingly at their traditional open-air annual assembly to impose a 200 Swiss franc ($176) fine on violators. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Ennio Leanza) (ENNIO LEANZA, AP / April 26, 2009)


 

This past winter, a growing number of unclad hikers was wandering the Alps, near Appenzell. Some Swiss legal experts said at the time banning nudity in public would be unconstitutional. Photo: Christoph Bangert for The New York Times, published March 16, 2009


 
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