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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 (03/17/13)
1) The inside of the Sistine Chapel, which has been prepared for the conclave voting by the cardinals, at the Vatican. Photo: L'Osservbatore Romano via AP
2) The Sistine Chapel stoves that will send up the smoke signal that lets the world know if a pope has been elected. Photo: L'Osservbatore Romano via Reuters
3) The vestments for the next pope, displayed in three different sizes, hang in the "Room of Tears" prior to the start of the conclave in the Sistine Chapel on March 12. Photo: L'Osservbatore Romano via Reuters
4) U.S. faithful hold placards asking for a U.S. pope as they wait for the result of the first vote during a papal election conclave at St. Peter's square at the Vatican. Photo: Andreas Solaro, AFP/Getty Images
5) Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave in order to elect a successor to Pope Benedict, in a still image taken from video at the Vatican March 12. Shut off from the outside world, the 115 cardinals will cast their ballots in a chapel which has Michelangelo's soaring Last Judgment on one wall, and his depiction of the hand of God giving life to Adam above them. Photo: Osservatore Romano / Reuters
6) People watch on a video monitor in St. Peter's Square as Monsignor Guido Marini, master of liturgical ceremonies, closes the double doors to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City on March 12, at the start of the conclave of cardinals to elect the next pope. Marini closed the doors after shouting "Extra omnes," Latin for "all out," telling everyone but those taking part in the conclave to leave the frescoed hall. He then locked it. Photo: Michael Sohn / AP
7) Cardinals in red, and faithful attend a Mass for the election of a new pope celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Sodano inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12. Photo: Reuters
8) Cardinals take an oath of secrecy inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, on March 12, before they start the conclave to elect the 266th Roman Catholic pope. Photo: L'osservatore Romano / AP
9) Cardinals from around the world gather in the Vatican to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Photo: Andrew Medichini / AP
10) White smoke emerges from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The white smoke indicates that the new pope has been elected. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
11) A nun reacts after white smoke billowed from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel indicating that a new pope has been elected in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on March 13, 2013. Photo: Emilio Morenatti / AP
12) Paola La Rocca celebrates after hearing on the speakers at the Metropolitan Cathedral that Buenos Aires' Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio was chosen as Pope in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Bergoglio is the first pope ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
13) A "cloud angel" rose over South Florida on the day that a new pope was named at the Vatican — resulting in snapshots and comments that multiplied like the biblical loaves and fishes. But experts say Wednesday evening's apparition is no supernatural miracle. Rather, it's a perfectly natural phenomenon that took on special meaning because of Pope Francis' selection. Several pictures came in to WPTV in West Palm Beach. Some saw a slim, winged figure in the cloud. "Wow, I wonder if Pope Francis ordered that!" one commenter, Thom George, said. Photo: WPTV
14) Newly elected Pope Francis appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on March 13, in Vatican City, Vatican. Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the 266th Pontiff and will lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. Photo: Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images
15) Argentina's Jorge Bergoglio (L), elected Pope Francis I, appearing at the window of St Peter's Basilica's balcony after being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at the Vatican. Photo: AFP - Getty Images
16) Visitors take photos of Pope Francis as he speaks from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on March 13. Photo: Michael Sohn / AP
17) Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, checks out of the church-run residence on March 14, where he had been staying in Rome. Pope Francis returned on Thursday to the Church-run residence where he was staying before becoming pontiff, and insisted on paying the bill, despite now effectively being in charge of the business, the Vatican said. Photo: Osservatore Romano via Reuters
18) People watch Pope Francis on a big screen in St. Peter's square as he celebrates his inaugural Mass with cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican, Thursday, March 14. As the 266th pope, Francis inherits a Catholic church in turmoil, beset by the clerical sex abuse scandal, internal divisions and dwindling numbers in parts of the world where Christianity had been strong for centuries. Photo: Oded Balilty / AP
19) Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan Coyer, who served with the U.S. Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on March 11, 2013. Coyer died of complications from an injury sustained in Afghanistan. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
20) Shams Karim gets a kiss from her cousins in Baghdad, Iraq. It's been more than six years since a bomb killed her mother and left the 7-year-old Iraqi girl blind for life. Photo: AP
21) An immigrant inmate excercises while another sits on his bunk at the Maricopa County Tent City jail on March 11, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. The striped uniforms and pink undergarments are standard issue at the facility. The tent jail, run by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, houses undocumented immigrants who are serving up to one year after being convicted of crime in the county. Although many of immigrants have lived in the U.S for years, often with families, most will be deported to Mexico after serving their sentences. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
22) Comet PanSTARRS and the crescent moon loom over a mountaintop row of wind turbines near Mojave, Calif., on Tuesday night. The pairing of the comet and the moon made for one of the year's best opportunities for astrophotography. Photo: Mike Massee
23) The “Miharu Takizakura,” shown here at night, is widely considered one of the most magnificent cherry blossom trees in Japan and designated as a specially protected natural monument. Photo: Yomiuri Shimbun
24) Bedouin children play as a swarm of locusts arrive over their village in the Negev desert near the Egyptian-Israeli border on March 12, 2013 at the Bedouin village of Bir Hadage, Israel. Egypt and Israel have been swarmed with millions of locusts over the past few days, causing widespread disturbance. Photo: Uriel Sinai / Getty Images
25) Tons of dead fish float on the waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, beside the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 13, 2013. Photo: Christophe Simon / AFP - Getty Images
26) A whale shark approaches a feeder boat off the beach of Tan-awan, Oslob, in the southern Philippines island of Cebu March 1. Photo: David Loh / Reuters
27) Zurich soccer player Loris Benito tries to catch a marten during the Swiss Super League match between FC Thun and FC Zurich in the stadium in Thun, Switzerland, on March 10. He dives. And he's got him. Photos: Marcel Bieri / Keystone via AP
28) Dustin Murley and Jessey Sisson race on their ostriches during the annual Ostrich Festival in Chandler, Ariz, March 10. Photo: Joshua Lott / Reuters
29) Wisconsin players celebrate as they leave the court following their win over Indiana Saturday in the Big Ten Conference Tournament semifinals, 68-56. Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood.
30) Milwaukee Riverside players hoist the gold ball trophy after defeating Mukwonago in the Division 1 championship game. Journal Sentinel photo: Corey Wilson
31) The violin that was played by the bandmaster of the Titanic as the ocean liner sank is being auctioned by Henry Aldridge & Son after extensive research into its authenticity. Photo: Associated Press
32) Civilian passengers of the Airbus A330 Zero-G, who are not astronauts nor scientists, enjoy weightlessness, on March 15, during the first zero gravity flight for paying passengers in Europe. Photo: Mehdi Fedouach / AFP - Getty Images
33) A child cries while getting a haircut in Huaibei, China, on Wednesday. According to traditional Chinese beliefs, getting a haircut on the second day of the second month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which fell on March 13 this year, will bring good luck. Photo: Reuters
34) Bagpipers march in the 252nd Annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York, on March 16, 2013. Photo: Peter Foley / EPA
35) Steven Anderson and Kimberly Anderson watch the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York on Saturday. Photo: Reuters, Carlo Allegri
36) Workers begin dying the Chicago River green to kick off the city's St. Patrick's Day celebration on Saturday in Chicago. The dying of the river has been a tradition in the city for 43 years. Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images
37) A man dressed as a leprechaun entertains the crowd on a water propelled Flyboard while workers dye the Chicago River green to kick off the city's St. Patrick's Day celebration on Saturday. The dyeing of the river has been a tradition in the city for 43 years. Getty Images: Scott Olson
38) David Westerby of Kenosa, Wis., yells during the St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago on Saturday. With the holiday itself falling on a Sunday, many celebrations were scheduled instead for Saturday because of religious observances. Photo: Paul Beaty / AP
39) Firefighter Steve Ortiz of the Los Angels City Fire Department is kissed while marching in the St. Patrick’s Day parade, Saturday in Savannah, Ga. Led by bagpipers in green kilts, the parade snaked through the streets with more than 300 floats, marching bands, military units marching in formation, and dignitaries in convertibles decorated with shamrocks. AP Photo: Stephen Morton
40) Buttons are seen on Dennis Dunn's sweater as he watches the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York on Saturday. Reuters: Carlo Allegri
41) Bev Kehayes, left, of Greensboro, N.C., gets her homemade hat pinned to her head by her friends Mary Parrish, center, and Sara Farnsworth, right, before the 189-year-old St. Patrick’s Day parade in Savannah, Ga., on Saturday. AP Photo: Stephen Morton
42) People dance during a St. Patrick's Day Parade in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday. Photo: Misha Japaridze / AP
43) Aidan Johnston, 7 months, watches Saturday's St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York. Reuters: Carlo Allegri
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