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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.
Week-ends
By Kevin Fischer
Saturday, Dec 27 2008, 07:25 AM
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In... HEROES OF THE WEEK
Santa Claus, who truly is conservative.
The USPS that delivers 19 billion letters, cards and packages every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'll also throw in those great UPS and FedEX drivers.
Snow plow drivers.
Andy Kochanski
Milwaukee Police Officers Steven Roufus and Timothy Gauerke
Nick Nelson
CRG Network
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
Bruce Pardo
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“This one-size-fits-all mandate is not only bad economic policy, it is also bad law. We believe this measure interferes with employers’ rights to negotiate labor agreements with their employees and is an illegal extension of the city of Milwaukee’s authority into areas of law and regulation reserved to the state.We do not take the issue of suing the city lightly. This has the potential to be a long and extremely costly fight. However, the negative ramifications of this mandate are so extreme for our member companies and our regional economy that we are convinced it is a fight we cannot afford to sit out.”
Metropolitan MIlwaukee Association of Commerce Presdient Tim Sheehy.The MMAC filed a legal challenge to the city of Milwaukee’s paid sick leave mandate. MMAC also will request that the court enter a temporary injunction blocking the city from enforcing the mandate while the court considers its validity. If this injunction is not granted, employers will need to begin implementation of the new mandate on Feb. 10, 2009.The paid sick leave ordinance would require Milwaukee employers to provide up to nine days of paid sick time per year based on the number of hours worked and the size of the business.
"We dominated the game. We felt very confident they weren't able to stop us. But we didn't score enough points. It's just really frustrating."
Green Bay Packer QB Aaron Rodgers after the Packers lost at Chicago Monday night in OT, 20-17.
“The Obamas, along with close friends, rented three houses, worth more than $30 million -- each a spacious 5,000 square feet, with waterfalls and a lagoon pool that flows throughout.”
ABC’s Yunji de Nies reported on “Good Morning America” Monday on the Obama's trip to Hawaii.
“Halfway through his round [of golf], as Mr. Obama stopped by the snack bar, he unexpectedly bumped into a small group of reporters sitting outside the club house. Asked how his game was going, he smiled and conceded, 'I’m not that good,’.He chatted for a moment, telling the traveling press pool to have a beer and put it on his tab. No one took him up on the offer.”
The New York Times' Jeff Zeleny
“Giving that kind of mark of approval and honor to someone who has frankly spoken in ways I and many others have found personally very offensive, I thought that was a mistake for the president-elect to do,”
Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass) on Obama's selection of Rick Warren to give his Inauguration invocation.
“Christmas falls on Thursday, but in the nation's capital it will come in early January, when the 111th Congress convenes and begins assembling an economic stimulus plan worth anywhere from $600 billion to $850 billion, and counting. However, lawmakers first must write a bill that, in legislative terms, doesn't become the year's biggest Christmas tree, festooned with billions for pet projects and special interest ornaments that are pleasing politically but not necessarily what the economy needs right now. One example: On Friday, The Association of Zoos and Aquariums issued a news release calling for ‘shovel-ready zoo and aquarium infrastructure projects to be eligible for federal stimulus funding.’ ”
McClatchy's David Lightman and Kevin G. Hall
“I thought he merited it at the time.”
Vice President Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday, not apologizing for telling Sen. Patrick Leahy to f*** himself.
“How many shots do you need?”
President-elect Obama to the photographers with him on the golf course in Hawaii.
'He was so anti-Bush, at first people just assumed he was an American journalist."
NBC's Tonight Show host Jay Leno, joing that the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush was "offered his own show on MSNBC."
And from conservative columnist Thomas Sowell-Random thoughts:
A reader suggests that members of Congress should wear uniforms, like NASCAR drivers, so that we will know who their corporate sponsors are. Many of those in Congress should also wear logos representing the teachers' unions, environmentalist extremists and other special interests.
People who are impressed by how many of Barack Obama's advisors have Ivy League degrees seem not to remember how many people with Ivy League degrees mismanaged the Vietnam war and how many people with Ivy League degrees mismanaged economic policy during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The fact that sales at Starbucks are going down, while sales at McDonald's are going up, shows that people are adjusting to economic adversity by cutting back their spending. Only in Congress do people adjust to economic adversity and growing deficits by spending more money.
Wal-Mart has done more for poor people than any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
One of the signs of how easily we are bullied by small and vocal groups is how many universities, among other institutions, dare not even refer to the Christmas vacation but instead refer to "the winter holiday."
If you didn't know that Governor Rod Blagojevich was a Democrat, you are unlikely to find out from the mainstream media. But, if you didn't know that recently convicted Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was a Republican, the media made sure to tell you.
OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK
Home values go down, property taxes go up
MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK
Stories about important numbers often get ignored.
MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK
Barack Obama shirtless.
STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK
Please don't try this at home.
REMEMBER: Your suggestions/nominations for any of these categories every week are welcome, especially for HEROES OF THE WEEK. If you know of anyone in the community deserving of recognition, please e-mail me.
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