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Dan Shafer

Dan Shafer is a journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes a weekly column called The Recombobulation Area, and previously worked at Seattle Magazine, the Milwaukee Business Journal, and Milwaukee Magazine.

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Anti-Lockdown Ruling Throws Wisconsin Into COVID Chaos

“This ruling doesn’t help us one bit,” a Milwaukee restaurant group CEO told The Daily Beast. “In fact, it makes it even more unclear on how businesses are to proceed safely.”

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Coronavirus Has Milwaukee DNC on the Ropes

Besides Joe Biden being almost certain to get the Democrats' 2020 nod, everything else about what might have been a wild Midwestern gathering is subsumed in a coronavirus haze.

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