The Recombobulation Area is a 19-time Milwaukee Press Club award-winning opinion column and online publication founded by longtime Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. The Recombobulation Area is now part of Civic Media.
Angela Lang is the co-executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC) and has been a longtime contributor at The Recombobulation Area, winning several Milwaukee Press Club awards for her work.
Angela and I haven’t had the chance to catch up in a while, so we got together for this podcast today to talk about a whole lot of things. We each brought three headlines or topics to talk about, so we could cover a lot of ground.
Topics discussed include:
Tony Evers’ final State of the State address, and the governor’s legacy
The crisis around grocery stores closing in predominantly Black neighborhoods in Milwaukee (and whether “food apartheid” is the right way to describe this ongoing problem)
The Republican-controlled state legislature advancing proposed amendments to the state constitution that are anti-DEI, and what those implications might mean
The organizing win behind the Milwaukee Police Department’s decision to ban facial recognition software
Democratic candidate for governor talking about ICE and immigration
Dan Shafer is a journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes The Recombobulation Area. In 2024, he became the Political Editor of Civic Media. 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 23 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. He’s on Twitter at @DanRShafer.
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