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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.
Friday night on InterCHANGE
By Kevin Fischer
Thursday, May 29 2008, 09:23 PM
Here are the topics up for discussion at 6:30 Friday night, repeated Sunday morning at 11:00 on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10:
1– Milwaukee Police Deployment.
The Milwaukee Police Department is going to create a new Neighborhood Task Force by grabbing 200 officers from various divisions, putting them in uniforms, and deploying them on an as needed and where needed basis. They will be headquartered at the old 3rd District Station on West Vliet Street. Everybody seems to think it’s a great idea, aldermen, community folks, the union. If so, why hasn’t it been tried before? Is this new approach exactly what Milwaukee needs? How can you take people out of the vice squad, detective bureau, motorcycle bureau, etc. and not have those areas hurting for manpower? Is this in effect creating another district, by opening up a station that years ago they promised would be sold?
2 – Bush Book.
Former White House Press Secretary and Bush insider Scott McClellan comes out with a new book that basically calls Bush and the people around him a bunch a liars for misleading the nation about the War in Iraq. When someone so close to the President says these things can you simply dismiss him as a “disgruntled insider?” McClellan says Bush and his closest advisors mislead the public to further their belief that war was necessary to create a strong democracy in that part of the world, whether Iraq had anything to do with September 11th or not.
3– Summer Tourism Jobs.
Every year business owners in Door County and Wisconsin Dells complain that its tough to find enough people to fill the summer job spots. They bring people in from Mexico and even eastern Europe, but that is getting more difficult and expensive to do. With so many unemployed black teens in Milwaukee, why can’t they figure out a way to use them to fill the job spots? Have efforts to do that failed because the Milwaukee kids aren’t hard workers? Is it because the business owners don’t want to put up with the problems and/or perceived problems that come with hiring central city kids? Is it because the mostly white tourists and business owners, like their vacation areas to be mostly white as well?
