The Recombobulation Area is a 21-time Milwaukee Press Club award-winning opinion column and online publication founded by Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer.
Every Friday on “Point Taken,” the hosts invite a voice from the left and a voice from the right to discuss the news of the week. Usually that’s Democratic strategist Joe Zepecki and Republican strategist Bill McCoshen. With Zepecki and co-host Steve Scaffidi out this week, I joined the show to talk with Kristin Brey and Bill McCoshen about the blue wave, a new era in state politics, if reality has set in for Republicans yet, what’s next for Act 10, whether Chuck Schumer should be Senate Majority Leader, and much more.
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Dan Shafer is an independent journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes The Recombobulation Area. He worked with Civic Media from 2024 to 2026. He’s written for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Heartland Signal, Belt Magazine, WisPolitics, and Milwaukee Record. He previously worked at Seattle Magazine, Seattle Business Magazine, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine, and BizTimes Milwaukee. He’s won 24 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. He’s on Twitter at @DanRShafer.
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