West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Michigan Democratic State Senator Mallory McMorrow gave a fiery rebuke to a Republican colleague's fundraising email that accused her of wanting to "groom and sexualize kindergartners."On the rest of the menu, a majority of Americans continue to support a mask requirement for people traveling on airplanes and other shared transportation; Florida Governor DeSantis raised the stakes in his battle with Disney over his capricious “Don’t Say Gay” law; and, California leads the effort to restore the original floodplains in the San Joaquin Valley from one hundred-fifty years ago.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Slovakia’s former Prime Minister Robert Fico is facing criminal charges; and, a massive cyberattack has crippled the Puerto Rico toll collection system.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the fascist tool of “Eliminationist rhetoric” has gained an alarming foothold in Trump-era politics.Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan's longest-serving congressman said death threats by extreme far-right members in his party are “a detriment to getting good people to run;” the Biden administration is requiring that all steel used in infrastructure projects be made in the US; and, a judge ruled Amazon must reinstate a former warehouse employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic for leading a protest calling for the company to do more to protect employees against COVID-19.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union’s fraud agency accused French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of embezzlement just days before her run-off election against Macron; and, Archbishop of Canterbury criti

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the war in Ukraine looms over Biden’s agenda.Then, on the rest of the menu, some state lawmakers are calling it quits because they can’t afford to serve; modest-income buyers are being priced out of new-vehicle market; and a container ship stuck for more than a month in Chesapeake Bay has finally been re-floated.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Swedes are fed up with three days of demonstrations across the Nordic nation by a Danish anti-immigrant far-right extremist group; and, WNBA players say life in Russia was lucrative, but lonely.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help." -- Julia Child~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump still can’t bring himself to say Putin is evil.On the rest of the menu, the Office of the Virginia attorney general denied it gave a pedophile cop a plea deal, but it did; a Tennessee Republican praised Hitler for leading a 'life that got him in the history books'; and, tens of thousands of California grocery store workers approved a new contract with the major supermarket chains.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China said it would reject “any pressure or coercion” to persuade Moscow to end the war in Ukraine; and, concerned scientists and worried government officials probe a massive sea urchin die-off in the Caribbean.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided an

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Justice Department refusing a request from the House Oversight Committee for an inventory of Trump materials is the strongest sign yet that the Feds are investigating Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, state and local governments across the United States are distributing millions of dollars they received from the American Rescue Plan to fight homelessness; Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy; and, multiple US government agencies issued a joint alert warning of the discovery of a suite of malicious cyber tools that are capable of sabotaging the energy sector and other critical industries.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where agricultural workers in the Horn of Africa are preparing for

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin lashing out at NATO has backfired as more countries want to join the alliance.On the rest of the menu, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on whether the amount of ballot boxes should be increased, or are ballot boxes a conspiracy by pedophiles to destroy America; the New York lieutenant governor resigned after his arrest in a federal probe on corruption; and, after his Republican colleagues finally turned on him, the South Dakota attorney general became the first official to be impeached in the state’s history.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the potential of a far-right victory in France is seen as a threat to the European Union: and, a cryptocurrency expert was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for helping North Korea evade US sanctions.All that and more, on West Coast Co

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jared Kushner secured a two billion dollar investment from the Saudis despite lacking the qualifications to handle such an investment.Then, on the rest of the menu, the National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America, and its findings are grim; California utility Pacific Gas & Electric will pay $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two massive wildfires; and, the Georgia elections lawsuit backed by Stacy Abrams goes to a bench trial.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Israeli spyware maker NSO Group turned to the US Supreme Court for immunity in the WhatsApp suit; and, Joe Biden urged India’s Narendra Modi not to accelerate the buying of Russian oil.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Alabama once again becomes the battleground of the Civil Rights movement.Then, on the rest of the menu, President Joe Biden is expected to nominate an Obama-era US attorney to run the ATF, as the administration unveils its formal rule to rein in ghost guns; the average US price of a gallon of gas dropped ten cents in the last two weeks to $4.27 per gallon; and, after a weekend of tech bro trolling, Elon Musk will not be joining the Twitter board of directors.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China closed the manufacturing hub of Guangzhou as the nation battles a major COVID-19 surge in its big eastern cities; and, Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower after the Federal Reserve indicated it might raise interest rates to cool US inflation.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisin

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, McConnell “sold his soul for a tax cut.”On the rest of the menu, a law and order Georgia Republican argued against banning stock trades for members of Congress because people would break the law anyway; a congressional oversight committee said the Justice Department is “obstructing” its investigation into Trump’s handling of classified material he illegally commandeered to Mar a Lago; and, more than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year across the US territory.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Canada banned foreign home buyers for two years to cool the hot housing market there; and, the European Union approved new punishing sanctions against Russia, including an EU embargo on coal imports.All that and more, on West C

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the party that’s accusing their enemies of being literal pedophiles, had to rewrite a bill that would have allowed child marriages to grown ass men in their 60’s.Then, on the rest of the menu, in a 5-4 Shadow Docket decision, the Supreme Court reinstated the Trump rule that gutted the Clean Water Act of 1972; Joe Biden signed a sweeping overhaul of the US Postal Service that saved six-days-a-week mail delivery, but Louis DeJoy is still there to monkey-wrench the works; and, House Democrats accused oil companies of price gouging as Americans suffer from ever-increasing gasoline prices during the war in Ukraine.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN General Assembly is voting today for Russia to be stripped of its seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council; and, Russia said that it made a debt payment in rubles

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new Republican tactic of smearing everyone who disagrees with them as supporting pedophilia “is a disgusting and cynical attempt to render their political opposition essentially as hateable as possible.”On the rest of the menu, Rick Scott voted against American manufacturing ideas he touted in his own plan; a former Trump administration official who is now running for a House seat in New Hampshire, voted twice in the 2016 GOP presidential primary; and, the House will vote today on whether to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Nigerian atheist was sentenced to twenty-four years in prison for blasphemy over Facebook posts; and, two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks stolen from Cambridge University’s library have been returned, two deca

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Republican obsession with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s judicial philosophy is just an example of “swamp, dark money talking points.”Then, on the rest of the menu, California advanced a bill allowing private citizens to sue anyone who distributes illegal assault weapons, ghost guns, or .50 caliber rifles; Amazon’s first-ever union overcame numerous hurdles, but now faces new ones; and, an American Library Association study found “challenges” to ban books, soared in 2021.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia was urged to stop using land mines in its war in Ukraine like Russia would even care; and, updated World Health Organization guidelines show ninety-nine percent of the world’s population breathes poor-quality air.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, an ex-Russian oligarch says when Vlad’s troops were not met with flowers, that was the one moment in the war that drove Putin ‘insane’.Then, on the rest of the menu, Black Democratic candidates try to revive the party in Trump territory; an Applebee’s franchisee worker was fired over a leaked email speculating on high gas prices forcing employees to work longer hours for less money; and, new vehicles sold in the US will have to average at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline by 2026.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Lithuania cut itself off entirely of gas imports from Russia over the weekend; and, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began at sunrise Saturday, just as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent energy and food prices soaring even higher.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Ju

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the war is not going the way Vlad thought it would.On the rest of the menu, a Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate repeated the false claim that he served as an Army Ranger; a National Security Agency employee has been charged with mishandling classified material; and, a historian sued the New York prisons over the ban of a Pulitzer-prize winning book about the Attica uprising.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese Australian journalist went on trial in Beijing on espionage charges, with diplomats denied permission to attend the proceedings; and, the Turkish prosecutor in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a surprise request that the trial be suspended and the case transferred to Saudi Arabia, raising fears of a possible coverup.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with C

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kremlin advisors will overthrow Putin before giving him “bad news” about Russia’s war failures.Then, on the rest of the menu, House Republicans oppose Biden’s efforts to expand voting rights; a network of national conservative groups is influencing Wisconsin school board elections; and, nine people were charged with federal civil rights offenses after they traveled to DC and then blocked access to a reproductive health center, and streamed it on Facebook.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the number of Ukrainian refugees has passed the UN’s worst-case estimate; and, a New Zealand man was sentenced to one year in prison for threatening to kill Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the seven hour telephone record gap suggests willful and felonious omissions about January 6.On the rest of the menu, the New York AG asked a state appeals court to enforce Trump’s subpoena; a federal judge in Texas put the national security at risk by barring the Navy from taking action against anti-vax sailors; and, the Federal Trade Commission is suing Intuit to stop its “bait and switch” TurboTax ads.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Ethiopian court ordered an Ethiopian journalist released on bail after being imprisoned for four months without charges; and, Poland finally held a state funeral for award-winning composer Krzysztof Penderecki after a two year delay due to COVID restrictions.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Putin can “never be welcomed back into the international community.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the United States seeks new lithium sources as demand for batteries grows; Anheuser-Busch beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine filed to run for the US Senate as a Democrat in Missouri against GOP wife beater Eric Greitens; and, a state Senate committee advanced a version of a sweeping bill that aims to improve Georgia’s dismal mental health care system.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Group of Seven agreed to reject Moscow’s demand to pay for Russian natural gas exports in rubles; and, a group of international experts revealed the Mexican government falsified investigations into the disappearance of forty-three students in 2014 from the start.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even with all the sturm and drang over the infamous “nine ad libbed words,” Biden delivered the right messages in Warsaw.Then, on the rest of the menu, officials lifted most of the evacuation orders that forced more than twenty-thousand residents to flee a Boulder, Colorado wildfire; a rarely cited section of the 14th Amendment dealing with insurrection could disqualify a handful of US House members from seeking reelection; and, Iditarod officials punished three mushers for sheltering their dogs during a severe freezing windstorm instead of leaving them out to die.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where after Russian threats to attack critical US energy infrastructure, officials are investigating a mysterious explosion and fire at an ExxonMobil refinery in southern Montana; and, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left party

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ginni Thomas urged Mark Meadows up to and after the January 6 Insurrection to help pursue the efforts underway to overturn the election.On the rest of the menu, the firing of a Texas librarian is only the latest attack on libraries; the January 6 committee set a contempt vote for two former Trump aides; and, empathy is not a quality Republican senators want to see in the first Black woman Supreme Court justice.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a prominent Somali female lawmaker was among at least 48 people killed in a suicide bombing at a polling station in rural central Somalia; and, Moscow was accused of forcibly removing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians to Russian gulags.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP treated Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearing like a campaign fundraiser.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration announced an initiative to address racial bias in home appraisals; Republicans made sure the IRS criminal investigation unit got no funds to enforce sanctions on rich Russians; and, Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where crushed by war, the Russian stock market will partially reopen for limited trading: and, the Taliban broke their promise on higher education for Afghan girls.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys th