Author Dan Shafer

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

Dan Shafer

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?”

Dan Shafer

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

Dan Shafer

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?)

Dan Shafer

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

Dan Shafer

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

Dan Shafer

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?

Dan Shafer

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

Dan Shafer

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...

The East Side location of Mega Media Xchange is closing

Dan Shafer

May 15, 2023

Mega Media Xchange has been a longtime staple of Milwaukee's East Side, at the corner of Brady Street and Farwell Avenue, buying and selling video games, movies, music, toys, and other electronics.But its d...

Proposed Brewers stadium deal is a short-sighted swing and miss

Dan Shafer

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

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...