Political Quotes

“I rise today to honor the life and achievements of Mr. Roshell ``Mike'' Anderson, acclaimed journalist for 36 years with the Milwaukee-based television station, WISN-12. Mike was born in Bogalusa, LA, in 1952 and raised in New Orleans. New Orleans' rich musical culture inspired Mike's life-long passion for R&B that landed him twice on the R&B soul charts in the 1970s with ``Snake out of Green Grass'' and ``Grapevine will Lie Sometimes.'' His musical accomplishments continued into the early 1990s and helped spawn a unique brand of journalistic storytelling. Mike attended Louisiana State University and the Career Academy School of Broadcast Journalism in Atlanta, GA. He started his career as a disc jockey in various Atlanta radio stations in 1970 and got his start in television in Seattle, WA, in 1979. When Mike took the job at WISN in Milwaukee in 1981, he planned to stay 3 years. He retired from the station 36 years later in 2017. Mike's journalism career spanned nearly four decades and six U.S. Presidencies. He was proud to have interviewed Richard Nixon, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. But Mike's most powerful work involved telling powerful and moving stories about the Milwaukee community.…”