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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, Aug 21 2008, 05:20 PM
Here are the topics for InterCHANGE Friday night at 6:30 on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, with a repeat Sunday morning at 11:00. The panelists are Gerard Randall, Joel McNally, and someone to replace me TBA since I will be filling in for Mark Belling.
1 – OBAMA / McCAIN.
The polls are starting to show the race between Obama and McCain is tightening up. Why is Obama losing his big lead? Will both candidates get a big bump following their respective conventions? Any predictions about who each will select as his running mate?
2 – MPS.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a very thoroughly researched series this week about how MPS spent millions of dollars building and improving facilities at neighborhood schools throughout the district. It was supposed to attract more families to their neighborhood schools, and cut down on the amount of money spent on bussing. The series concludes that the program was a failure. It concludes that most of the schools haven’t attracted more students, it hasn’t stopped bussing, and hasn’t improved test scores. What happened? Should the district just force people to go to their neighborhood schools, and not allow students to be bussed out of their own neighborhoods? Did private school choice doom this dream of neighborhood schools? Should the money have been spent on more teachers? More security? Can anything save MPS?
3 - DRINKING AGE.
There’s a push to lower the drinking age from 21 to something between 18 and 21. Does that make any sense? Will it go anywhere? The federal government pressured all the states into increasing the drinking age by threatening to do away with federal highway money. Was that a smart move? Did it work? Did it save lives? Are college campuses more dangerous places because kids who can’t legally drink just go out and binge drink instead at campus house parties? If you’re old enough to fight in a war, should you be old enough to have a beer when you get home? Would 19 be a good compromise?
