What should be done with 794?
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click HERE to subscribe.It's the Local Debate Topic du jour. When we're not ar...
Milwaukee’s new 2% sales tax is how the city lives to fight another day
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click HERE to subscribe.On the morning of Tuesday, July 11, 2023, the Milwauke...
Proposed Brewers stadium deal is a short-sighted swing and miss
Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click HERE to subscribe.A somewhat surprising announcement arrived in the inbo...
Digging into the race for Wisconsin’s 8th Senate District—the OTHER big race in Tuesday’s primary
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 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...
Gerrymandering, Republican supermajorities, and 4 state legislature races to watch in the Milwaukee area
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 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...
Re-watch Game 6 of the 2021 NBA Finals at The Cooperage on July 20
July 20, 2021 is a date Milwaukee will always remember. That night, the Bucks won Game 6 of the NBA Finals and, in doing so, became world champions. Even though Giannis Antetokounmpo and company were unable to ...
The I-94/Stadium Interchange project is improving. But its future remains uncertain
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 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 ...