The Recombobulation Area

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time TEN-TIME Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . For Episode Six of the “Bird on a Wire” podcast series, Lu Ann Bird is joined by the “Grandma brigade.” That would be JoAnn Stasiewicz and Jean Parulski. Jean and Joann were th...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time TEN-TIME Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . The race for Wisconsin Supreme Court happened a couple weeks ago now, but since it was such a big deal for the future of politics in this state, there’s a whole lot for us to s...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time TEN-TIME Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . For Episode Five of the “Bird on a Wire” podcast series, Lu Ann Bird is joined by Dr. Katheryn Hope Wilkinson. Dr. Wilkinson is a resident of the district where LuAnn ran for A...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time TEN-TIME Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . For Episode Four of the “Bird on a Wire” podcast series, Lu Ann Bird is joined by Sarah Godlewski. You might know Sarah from her time serving as the State Treasurer, her run fo...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time TEN-TIME Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . We are just days away from the Spring Election in Wisconsin. And while the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court will be on the ballot statewide, there are a whole lot of other race...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time TEN-TIME Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . For Episode Three of the “Bird on a Wire” podcast series, Lu Ann Bird is joined by Christopher Porterfield. Porterfield is the lead singer and songwriter from the acclaimed ban...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time TEN-TIME Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . "Bird on a Wire" is a podcast series featuring conversations about hope, civility and action. LuAnn Bird has had a career in civic action and making change, from serving on sch...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . "Bird on a Wire" is a podcast series featuring conversations about hope, civility and action. LuAnn Bird has had a career in civic action and making change, from serving on school board...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . The Spring Election in Wisconsin is now less than one month away. And on the ballot statewide in that April 4 election is the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court, where Janet Protasiewicz...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . Reporter Mario Koran of Wisconsin Watch has exhaustively detailed the fallout of a controversial Title IX investigation at Kiel Middle School. His reporting revealed that the narrative...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . For the last couple weeks, I have had the opportunity to be the guest host for “Connect MKE,” the local news program at CW18 and My24 Milwaukee. If you missed the episodes live, you can...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . This week, I had the opportunity to be the guest host for Connect MKE, the local news program at CW18 and My24 Milwaukee. The episodes aired on Sept. 10 and 11, but if you missed them,...

The Recombobulation Area is a six-time Milwaukee Press Club award - winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . Thanks to everyone who joined The Recombobulation Area at Boone & Crockett for our event: “A Conversation with Cavalier Johnson”! It was a terrific event and we appreciate all of your s...

The Recombobulation Area is a weekly opinion column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . The city of Milwaukee just held its first open mayoral primary since 2004. The results are in, and the two candidates receiving the most votes are Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson with about 42% of the vote and former alderman Bob Donovan with about 22% of the vote. They will go...

The Recombobulation Area is a weekly opinion column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . The City of Milwaukee is going to have an election for mayor. On February 15, we'll have a primary that could prove to be the most competitive mayoral primary in a generation.  Here at The Recombobulation Area, we’re going to be covering that election and getting into the iss...

The Recombobulation Area is a weekly opinion column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . The City of Milwaukee is going to have an election for mayor. On February 15, we'll have a primary that could prove to be the most competitive mayoral primary in a generation.  Here at The Recombobulation Area, we’re going to be covering that election and getting into the iss...

The Recombobulation Area is a weekly opinion column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . The City of Milwaukee is going to have an election for mayor. On February 15, we'll have a primary that could prove to be the most competitive mayoral primary in a generation.  Here at The Recombobulation Area, we’re going to be covering that election and getting into the iss...

The Recombobulation Area is a weekly opinion column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . The City of Milwaukee is going to have an election for mayor. On February 15, we'll have a primary that could prove to be the most competitive mayoral primary in a generation.  Here at The Recombobulation Area, we’re going to be covering that election and getting into the iss...

The Recombobulation Area is a weekly opinion column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . The City of Milwaukee is going to have an election for mayor. On February 15, we'll have a primary that could prove to be the most competitive mayoral primary in a generation.  Here at The Recombobulation Area, we’re going to be covering that election and getting into the iss...

The Recombobulation Area is an  award-winning  weekly opinion column written by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . It’s official: Milwaukee is going to have an election for mayor. In less than two months, we’ll have a primary, and on April 5, we will be electing a new mayor.  Tom Barrett, the city’s mayor of more than 17 years, was unceremoniously confirmed as the...

The Recombobulation Area is an  award-winning  weekly opinion column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . “Should I-94 Be Expanded?” That was the question posed at the afternoon panel discussion at the Urban Spaceship Conference at Nō Studios in Milwaukee, on Tuesday, Nov. 9. The larger event , a day-long national urbanism conference curated by NAIOP Wisconsin an...

The Recombobulation Area is an  award-winning  weekly opinion column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . One of the biggest stories in Wisconsin right now is the battle over redistricting. Maps that will be in place for the next decade are now being discussed and debated in the Wisconsin state legislature.  In my most recent column , I wrote about the new maps b...

The Recombobulation Area is a weekly opinion column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . Disclaimer for listeners : There are some keyboard sounds in the early part of this podcast that might be distracting. Honestly, I just made the silly mistake of putting my recorder too close to the keyboard. The sounds don’t last the whole episode (I figured it out soon enou...

The Recombobulation Area is a weekly column by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it  here . David Crowley is a state representative from Milwaukee, representing the Assembly District 17, which includes several neighborhoods in the city of Milwaukee’s west and northwest side, such as Uptown, Enderis Park and Capitol Heights. Chris Abele’s unexpected decision to step down fro...