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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.
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By Kevin Fischer
Sunday, Oct 12 2008, 08:40 PM
Convicted sex offender Steve Hanke, booted out of Franklin recently for being in violation of Franklin’s tough ordinances that restrict where sex offenders can live, had to go somewhere.
Look where he turned up: At a motel on Highway 100 in Greenfield that doesn’t have an ordinance that limits where sex offenders can live.
Why doesn’t Greenfield have a Franklin-like ordinance? The Greenfield Common Council is hemming and hawing about a proposed ordinance by Greenfield Alderman Linda Lubotsky, even though Franklin and next-door Greendale have such laws on the books.
Lubotsky told her fellow Council members Greenfield could become a dumping ground. Hanke went right for Greenfield, and is now living just 1531 feet from a day care center.
The next meeting of the Greenfield Common Council Legislative Committee to consider and possibly vote on Lubotsky’s ordinance is Monday, October 20, 2008 at 6:30. So far, the only certain vote in support of the ordinance is Lubotsky’s.
Meanwhile, kudos to Greenfield police who are informing sex offenders what they can and cannot do during Halloween.
Thank goodness Greenfield and so many other communities around the country recognize why measures like these are necessary.
