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Milwaukee Day alert: Attend live Recombobulation Area podcast at Walker’s Point Anodyne

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 24, 2026

Milwaukee Day—a.k.a. 414 Day, a.k.a. April 14—is fast approaching. How will YOU spend the big day? Well, if you enjoy lively chatter between smart, brilliant, consequential Milwaukeeans and one other guy, you'l...

Civic Media welcomes Dan Shafer and The Recombobulation Area to its growing Wisconsin network

August 27, 2024

Civic Media welcomes Dan Shafer and The Recombobulation Area to its growing Wisconsin network August 27, 2024 8:00 AM CDT - Madison, Wis. – Civic Media is pleased to announce the addition of The Recombobulatio...

Have we reached an inflection point for transportation in Milwaukee?

May 16, 2024

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Subscribe HERE. In and around Milwaukee, there always seems to be some kind of ...

Everything you need to know about the April 2 Spring Election in Milwaukee

March 29, 2024

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Subscribe HERE. Going into this year, it might have seemed like this had the ch...

Bob Uecker Boulevard and Bernie Brewer’s Beer Garden: A west side “What if?”

February 28, 2024

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Subscribe HERE. Earlier this month, the Milwaukee Brewers made an announcement ...

The Bucks needed to recombobulate

January 30, 2024

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Subscribe HERE. The Milwaukee Bucks are having a pretty weird season. The te...

What’s keeping Wisconsin from legalizing marijuana? (And is it REALLY the Tavern League?)

January 9, 2024

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click HERE to subscribe. A recent feature story from MLive in Michigan took an ...

Back from the brink? Milwaukee just had its best budget season in decades

November 29, 2023

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click HERE to subscribe. A funny thing happened this fall in Milwaukee. No, ...

Brewers vs. Bucks: Comparing the AmFam Field and Fiserv Forum stadium deals

October 5, 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 home of the Milwaukee Brewers, American Family Fie...

What should be done with 794?

August 31, 2023

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

July 13, 2023

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

April 27, 2023

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Re-watch Game 6 of the 2021 NBA Finals at The Cooperage on July 20

July 15, 2022

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

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

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 ...