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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. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, in Franklin.
InterCHANGE-Friday night on Channel 10
By Kevin Fischer
Thursday, Oct 18 2007, 10:16 PM
Here are the topics I’ll discuss with my co-panelists on InterCHANGE at 6:30 Friday night on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10 (repeat Sunday morning at 11:00):
1 – Presidential Candidates. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both raised twice as much money as the leading republican candidates this summer, and they still have three times as much on hand left to spend as the republican candidates do. Why are Clinton and Obama so much more able to shake the money tree than Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney are? Are the democrats just that much more excited about their candidates than the republicans are about theirs? Will this all change once the republicans have a nominee?
2 – Kids & Birth Control. A middle school in Portland, Maine has decided that it will begin dispensing prescription birth control (the patch, the pill, morning after pill, etc.) to the kids (Grades 6, 7, 8) who ask for it. They’ve been dispensing condoms since 2000. If the parents sign a form that indicates their children can be treated by the school nurse, those kids could then request confidential prescription birth control. Is this unthinkable, or is it something more schools should do? Is this too young for kids to even think that sex and/or birth control is an option, or is it just facing up to reality?
3 – Milwaukee Chief. Will Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett select an insider or an outsider for the job of police chief? It’s getting down to the wire. Is the guy from Springfield, Massachusetts the favorite? Why was he added at the last minute? Should he be the favorite? Is it important that the next chief be a minority? Does it matter if it is a male or a female? An African-American, Hispanic, Caucasian?
