West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 coup evidence bolsters the case for AG Garland to indict, as the DOJ faces heat over 'double standards.'Then, on the rest of the menu, Louisiana authorities’ use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken-identity arrest of a Black Georgia man on a fugitive warrant; the Supreme Court is taking longer to hear cases; and, Washington Commander’s owner Dan Snyder, in a recent court filing, called England his “usual residence.”After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where scuffles broke out just outside a village in western Germany that is to be razed to allow the expansion of a coal mine; and, Mexico’s Supreme Court elected the first woman chief justice in its history..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, Adam Kinzinger fears for the nation if Trump is not charged with a crime for January 6.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge put a temporary hold on a new California law boosting protections for fast-food workers; the Illinois Supreme Court has halted provisions of a new law that would eliminate cash bail for criminal defendants; and, blackouts after coal and natural gas units went offline during dangerously cold conditions has intensified questions about the Tennessee Valley Authority’s recent decision to double down on fossil fuels.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dubai ended its 30% tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom; and, Croatia rang in the New Year as a fully integrated EU member.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Ap

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 threat of mass resignations from the intel community upended Trump’s coup plans.On the rest of the menu, an Idaho school board won’t say what are the racist incidents it is investigating at its middle and high schools; the US Census Bureau has redefined the meaning of ‘urban’ America; and, the New Year is expected to bring more changes to state voting laws.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a court in Dubai approved the extradition to Denmark of a British financier accused of orchestrating a $1.7 billion tax fraud scheme; and, the Turkish, Syrian, and Russian defense chiefs held surprise talks in Moscow.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhap

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, Meadows burned documents in his White House office “maybe a dozen times,” right after meeting with Scott Perry during the transition period.Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA is investigating Colorado for racially discriminatory air pollution regulations; in courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didn’t commit; and, Florida’s citrus, fruit and vegetable crops appear to have escaped any widespread damage from some of the coldest weather in years.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Iraq prime minister ordered a crackdown on local businesses violating international trademarks; and, Finland received its first floating Liquid Natural Gas terminal to replace Russian petrol.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine J

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, a White House aide testified Trump wanted blanket pardons for everyone involved in the January 6 insurrection.Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans distorted crime data to win elections, but it didn't work; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants to know why Tesla has stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online; and, monster waves, high tides and gale-force winds that battered Oregon and Washington led to fatal crashes, power outages and flooded homes.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where about two hundred women are still in prison in Mexico under outdated anti-abortion state laws, even though the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion last year; and, pre-Christmas weapons inspections in a small town in northern Greece has turned up hand grenades, assault rifles and decades-old unexploded

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, Cassidy Hutchinson’s January 6 testimony transcript was ‘like a mob movie.’Then, on the rest of the menu, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon will get $24 million dollars to replace its decades-long faulty water facility; a January 6 insurgent was arrested after an hours-long standoff in California; and, a federal judge in New York kept the plea deals of two FTX executives secret so Sam Bankman-Fried wouldn’t get spooked and fight extradition from the Bahamas.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four major international aid groups suspended operations in Afghanistan following a Taliban edict to ban women from working at non-governmental organizations; and, the head of the Turkish Medical Association stands trial on terror charges after calling for an investigation into whether the Turkish military used chemical

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, Cassidy Hutchinson did not want a lawyer from Trump World.On the rest of the menu, after spending $95 million dollars to own the Libs, outgoing-Arizona governor Doug Ducey is backing down and removing the shipping container wall along the Mexico border; a federal judge questioned San Francisco’s tactics in its homeless sweeps; and, turning what had been a long-standing post-Watergate norm into established federal policy, the House passed a bill that would require audits of any president’s income tax filings.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s Wagner Group received arms from North Korea to bolster its forces in Ukraine; and an employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason for passing secret information to Russia.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 January 6th committee released testimony transcripts of Trump allies under oath.Then, on the rest of the menu, Kari Lake’s promised bombshells to prove she’s the rightful governor of Arizona turned out to be duds at the first day of her trial; the IRS mandatory presidential audit policy goes under the spotlight; and, as the flu rages, the Biden administration has released medicine from the national stockpile.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two of Sam Bankman-Fried’s top associates secretly pleaded guilty to criminal charges and are cooperating with investigators; and the foreign ministers of Australia and China met in Beijing in a bid to repair their tense relationship.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, Trump’s insurrection impeachment lawyer David Schoen was fact-checked on live tv.Then, on the rest of the menu, a rule delay by the Treasury Department makes a big EV tax credit possible by early next year; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the witness stand in an FTC anti-trust case; and, after intense prodding by the Biden Administration, the Postal Service pledged a move to an all-electric delivery fleet.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers banned women students from attending universities effective immediately; and, in an unprecedented move against Spain’s leftist coalition government, the country’s top court handed down a ruling preventing the upper house of Parliament from debating and voting..All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bo

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, if the DOJ does not act on the J6 Committee criminal referrals, “the country will want to know why.”Then, on the rest of the menu, at a White House Hanukkah event, Joe Biden condemned the ‘venom’ of antisemitism; the Republican’s usual embrace of Trump is strangely muted after the January 6 criminal referrals; and, the Air Force grounded its entire fleet of B-2 stealth bombers following an emergency landing and fire, and none will perform flyovers at this years’ college bowl games.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea warned Japan over its 'very dangerous' military buildup; and, scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have created a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae that could eventually help rewild reefs threatened by climate change.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Spe

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, Republicans just can’t quit Donald Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon has appointed the first Laotian judge in the United States; the mayor of Reno, Nevada filed suit after finding a tracking device on her vehicle; and, the Iowa Democratic Party chair will step down in the wake of a vote by the national party to put the South Carolina primary ahead of the Iowa caucuses.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moldova suspended six TV channels over broadcasting misinformation from Russian media; and, the Transportation Security Agency has been discovering a record number of guns on passengers at airline checkpoints.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 org

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, based on Meadows’ texts, reporters are ‘alarmed at the intelligence level of some of our elected representatives.’On the rest of the menu, California has lowered incentives for rooftop solar panels; federal regulators ordered a review of power-grid security after attacks across the country; and, an intel analyst tried to prevent the January 6 attack, but DHS repeatedly ignored his warnings.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chinese firms averted delisting as the US audit watchdog gets full inspection access; and, a leftist bloc of Latin American countries closed ranks behind the deposed Peruvian president.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profe

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, Stephen Miller's law group says it's fighting 'racism against White people.'Then, on the rest of the menu, Congress passed a bipartisan bill to fund police de-escalation training; the US government has finally sued Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and the state for trespassing on federal lands over the placement of shipping containers on the border with Mexico; and, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled on new penalties for companies that illegally fire workers who unionize.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Turkish court sentenced an Erdogan rival to two years in prison for insulting public officials; and, activists have filed a lawsuit against Facebook/Meta over a murdered Ethiopian professor.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, recent subpoenas issued by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith reveals he has expanded the Trump investigation.Then, on the rest of the menu, outgoing Democratic governor Kate Brown commuted the sentences of all seventeen people on Oregon’s death row to life without possibility of parole; a bench trial has started to determine if an Alaskan Oath Keeper lawmaker is unfit for office because of his participation to overthrow the US government; and, the Department of Justice and Homeland Security were urged to investigate a multi-state conspiracy by Trump groups to copy voting software and circulate it “in the wild.”After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian FSB officer was charged by US prosecutors with smuggling sensitive electronic components to help Russia’s military effort; and, a key figure in a massive German tax evas

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, “we’re lurching into an era where violence will be preferred to voting.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court is restoring the pre-pandemic tradition of announcing decisions in a public session in the courtroom; an Iowa judge blocked an effort to ban most abortions in the state; and, the Biden White House has formed a new interagency group to develop a national strategy to combat antisemitism.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an independent investigation uncovered widespread racism at the Dutch foreign ministry; and, the European Parliament moved quickly to strip one of its members of her role as vice president after she and others faced criminal charges over the Qatar graft probe.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, Marjorie Taylor Greene told the New York Young Republicans Club that Jan 6 protesters 'would've been armed' if she and Steve Bannon had been in charge of organizing it.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon lawsuit puts a spotlight on the destruction of Black neighborhoods by urban improvement projects and construction of the nation’s highways; as Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey prepares to leave office, he has hired crews to erect hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped by razor wire along Arizona’s eastern boundary with Mexico; and, one of New Hampshire’s teachers’ unions is suing to stop public dollars from being spent to fund private schools through the Education Freedom Account program.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian court sentenced a Putin war critic to eight years for spreading ‘f

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 didn’t give a damn about Paul Whelan when he was in office.On the rest of the menu, the Virginia Supreme Court overruled a Republican judge who booted a progressive prosecutor off a case; Maxwell Frost of Florida, the first member of the Gen Z generation elected to Congress, was denied a DC apartment over bad credit; and, the Government Accountability Office is urging the Department of Agriculture to include more seafood in school lunch programs.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a judge ordered a Guatemalan newspaper chief to stand trial amid criticism that his arrest was politically motivated; and, after less than a year on the job, the German soccer league is replacing its first female CEO with two men.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, more stolen classified documents have been discovered, this time at a Trump storage unit in Florida.Then, on the rest of the menu, for the first time in over forty years, hundreds of New York Times journalists and workers walked off the job; the first-ever US auction of leases to develop commercial-scale floating wind farms in the waters off the West Coast, attracted $757 million in winning bids; and, the Pentagon will split its $9 billion cloud contract among four companies.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korea widened its back-to-work orders on striking truckers; and, Greece slammed Turkey’s ‘repeated threats of war.’All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the

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, according to Ron DeSantis’ own definition, most of the country is “woke.”Then, on the rest of the menu, farmers of color sued the government for promised federal aid; a federal judge ordered a nationwide slaughterhouse cleaning company not to hire minors; and, the House ethics panel fined Madison Cawthorn over $15,000 for promoting cryptocurrency.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group are accused of using violence to corner the African diamond trade; and, thousands of police carried out a series of raids across Germany against far-right extremists who sought to overthrow the state by force, with a little help from Putin.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of

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, Right Wing extremists have a history of attacking electric-power substations.Then, on the rest of the menu, a former Republican Miami congressman, with deep ties to Marco Rubio, was arrested on charges of money laundering and not registering as a foreign agent; federal prosecutors told a judge that a life prison sentence would be justified for the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer; and, California could become the first state to fine big oil companies for price gouging.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the governor of Germany’s state of Lower Saxony said he is quitting Twitter because the site is being used to spread “hatred and incitement;” and, Indonesia’s Parliament passed a revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex for citizens and visiting foreigners alike.All that an