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Dan Shafer is a journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes the weekly column and online publication, The Recombobulation Area. He previously worked at Seattle Magazine, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine, and BizTimes Milwaukee. He’s won 13 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. He’s on Twitter at @DanRShafer, where he's probably tweeting about the Bucks.

Digging into the race for Wisconsin’s 8th Senate District—the OTHER big race in Tuesday’s primary

Dan Shafer
February 16, 2023
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe.The race for Wisconsin Supreme Court is the biggest on...

Critically acclaimed ‘The Flagmakers’ tells a story of America, immigrants, Milwaukee

Dan Shafer
January 19, 2023
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe.One of the first things that struck me about The Flagm...

Giannis and the Bucks are chasing history in 2023

Dan Shafer
November 30, 2022
About four years ago in this space, I wrote about how the Milwaukee Bucks had made the leap to becoming legitimate contenders to make the NBA Finals. They came up just two games short of getting there in that 2...

Gerrymandering, Republican supermajorities, and 4 state legislature races to watch in the Milwaukee area

Dan Shafer
September 30, 2022
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe.The Republican-controlled state legislature has a trem...

Looming Gannett layoffs highlight importance of local news, Wisconsin’s precarious position

Dan Shafer
August 31, 2022
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe.In Wisconsin, there are 11 newspapers owned by Gannett...

The I-94/Stadium Interchange project is improving. But its future remains uncertain

Dan Shafer
June 17, 2022
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe.The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) he...

Wauwatosa is at the core of Republicans’ ugly partisan gerrymander

Dan Shafer
May 19, 2022
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe.One of the most important cities on the political map ...

The Bucks have given us a new Milwaukee tradition. Let’s not take it for granted

Dan Shafer
April 19, 2022
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe.Sometimes I still can't believe it all really happened...

Midseason Report: The Milwaukee Bucks are on pace for a historically good year

Dan Shafer
January 14, 2020
The NBA’s most unlikely powerhouse franchise is proving last year’s 60-win season was no fluke. With half of the regular season now complete, our Milwaukee Bucks are on pace to once again have the league’s best...

Milwaukee Bucks come into 2019-20 season with Championship expectations

Dan Shafer
October 23, 2019
The Milwaukee Bucks begin the 2019-20 NBA season with something they haven’t had since the days of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Championship expectations.Following a magical 60-win season, two playoff series victor...

5 things to watch in the Bucks-Raptors Eastern Conference Finals

Dan Shafer
May 15, 2019
The Milwaukee Bucks are favorites to win the Eastern Conference Finals. In this storybook dream season few saw coming, we’ve now arrived at the penultimate round where the Bucks not only have a chance to advanc...

5 things to watch in the Bucks-Celtics second-round showdown

Dan Shafer
April 28, 2019
The second-round playoff series between the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics is going to be a war. The preseason favorite to sit atop the post-LeBron Eastern Conference squares off against the top-seeded brea...

From 15 to 60 wins: Watching the Bucks complete a 5-year turnaround

Dan Shafer
April 8, 2019
Most of the fans in attendance at the sold-out Fiserv Forum on Sunday night stuck around to the final bell, and with good reason. The Milwaukee Bucks had just notched their 60th win of this magical, gift-from-a...

Midseason Report: The Milwaukee Bucks are having their best season in decades

Dan Shafer
January 14, 2019
Midway through the 2018-19 season, the Milwaukee Bucks have been one of the NBA’s best teams. They have the second-best record in the league, and you could make a good argument that the Bucks have been the best...

8 reasons you should jump on the Milwaukee Bucks bandwagon

Dan Shafer
November 27, 2018
As recently as a few years ago, if you wandered into a Milwaukee bar between October and April with the hopes of watching the local professional basketball team, you’d probably have had to ask the bartender, “h...
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