West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, Trump’s call to eliminate the Constitution is not a deal-breaker for the Republican party.Then, on the rest of the menu, the re-elected Republican governor of Tennessee is considering highway express toll lanes and tripling the fees for electric car owners; election conspiracists who were soundly defeated for statewide offices, are now seeking to take over the Michigan GOP; and, the Oregon attorney general acknowledged the state isn’t ready to have a permitting process in place by this Thursday as required by the voter-approved gun control Measure 114.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European officials have objected to the green subsidies in Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act as protectionist; and, the British rail workers union rejected an offer aimed at averting future strikes.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 Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Hank Johnson are demanding accountability from the Supreme Court.On the rest of the menu, the $20 billion allocated to Indian Country under the American Rescue Plan will affect 2.6 million people; a rural Arizona county finally certified its midterm election results after a judge ruled Republican supervisors broke the law when they refused; and, immigrant rights groups sued Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials over the constitutionality of their migrant relocation plan.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the trial of Hong Kong newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai was postponed when the territory’s leader asked China to block him from hiring a British defense lawyer; and, Australian economist Sean Turnell, who spent almost two years imprisoned in Myanmar, received a hero’s welcome at

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Holiday Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Oath Keepers conviction on seditious conspiracy makes it harder to whitewash the January 6 Committee. Then, on the rest of the menu, in a historic move, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York will succeed Nancy Pelosi as leader; creeping white nationalism has infected the GOP; and, conservative, anti-abortion activists executed a strategy to ingratiate themselves with Supreme Court justices in order to advance their agenda.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union is seeking a UN-backed specialized court to investigate Russia war crimes; and, the German parliament approved a resolution that labels the 1930’s Ukraine famine as genocide.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 seditious conspiracy verdict in the Oath Keeper trial gives the Department of Justice a “stronger hand” in future cases.Then, on the rest of the menu, Portland, Oregon settled a federal lawsuit over its police use of tear gas and other crowd control weapons; a panel of three federal judges heard closing arguments on whether South Carolina’s heavily gerrymandered US congressional maps are legal; and, journalists with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper continued their strike, claiming that parent company McClatchy has refused to bargain in good faith over a new contract.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the head of the International Monetary Fund urged China to end its mass lockdowns; and, a prominent Polish judge has been reinstated amid a standoff with the European Union over judicial independence.All that a

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, Trump’s “toxic wing” has caused chaos in the House.Then, on the rest of the menu, Brett Favre asked to be removed from a lawsuit by the state of Mississippi that seeks to recover millions of dollars in misspent welfare money; more than four hundred thousand voters cast ballots in early voting for the Georgia Senate runoff; and, the Interior Department proposed rules to limit methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on public lands.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Irish regulators slapped Facebook with a $277 million fine for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules; and, for the first time since 2014, Australia’s terrorism threat level has been downgraded from “probable” to “possible.”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 Schiff fired back after McCarthy threatened to remove him from the intel committee.Then, on the rest of the menu, Whole Foods’ decision to stop selling Maine lobster has divided environmentalists, politicians and fishermen; California regulators approved $1 billion for the new heavy-duty truck EV charging project; and, a federal judge denied a bid for a new trial in the Whitmer kidnapping case.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two Iranian-born Swedish brothers went on trial in Stockholm, charged with spying for Russia for a decade; and, US Soccer briefly scrubbed the Islamic Republic emblem from the Iran flag at the World Cup, in support of the protests for women’s rights.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; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump thought the Supreme Court judges would be like Judge Cannon.On the rest of the menu, the lack of Oregon public defenders has strained the criminal justice system and left more than seven hundred people statewide without legal representation; a Tennessee judicial panel has upheld the state’s contentious school voucher law; and, Ford has recalled over six hundred thirty-four thousand SUVs due to fuel leaks and fire risks.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Egypt announced a mass pardon for thirty jailed activists; and, Australia moved to prevent a repeat of their former leader’s power grab.​​​​​​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 profession, and a l

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Holiday Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump braces for his tax returns going to congress, just as Pence is mulling his interview with the Department of Justice.Then, on the rest of the menu, most of the Fed officials at their last meeting backed slower rate hikes; a South Carolina program aims to boost the ranks of Black teachers; and, New York’s first pot crop is jeopardized by a court fight.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Brazil election agency rejected Bolsonaro’s push to void votes; and, China has expanded lockdowns as COVID-19 cases hit a daily record.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- T

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 big loss in the Supreme Court is just the beginning.Then, on the rest of the menu, the severe drought in Hawaii is fueling rare November wildfire warnings; Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has no intentions of resigning after being threatened by the congressional insurgent caucus; and, Miami-Dade County asked a federal bankruptcy court for permission to immediately remove the FTX name from the Miami Heat arena.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a huge horde of ancient Celtic gold coins has been stolen from a museum in southern Germany; and, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit a town in northwest Turkey, causing damage to some buildings and widespread panic.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To

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, special counsel Jack Smith is getting to work with no signs yet that the two investigations he now oversees around Donald Trump will slow down.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Virginia Military Institute’s first Black superintendent is under attack by conservative White alumni; when it became clear Sandy Hook families would prevail in court, Alex Jones started moving his money around; and, a Georgia appeals court declined to halt Saturday early runoff voting between Walker and Warnock.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where auditors in Iraq have uncovered a staggering $2.5 billion tax fraud scheme; and, Australia ratified bilateral free trade deals with India and Britain.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“As

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, Former CIA director Leon Panetta noticed something about Trump’s response to the DOJ investigation.Then, on the rest of the menu, despite dangerous pregnancy complications threatening the life of the mother, abortions are still being denied in some states; the FTX bankruptcy filing says it owes more than $3 billion to creditors; and, the Club Q shooting follows a year of bomb threats, anti-drag protests and virulent anti-trans bills stoking the flames.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazilian economist Ilan Goldfajn has been selected to lead the region’s largest development bank after the previous president was fired for misconduct; and, in a historic move, developed nations at the COP27 agreed to help developing countries pay for the catastrophic consequences of climate change.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook

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, GOP redistricting is undermining democracy in the state legislatures.On the rest of the menu, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a plan to demolish four dams on the Lower Klamath River that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world; a federal judge in Florida issued a temporary injunction against the Ron DeSantis “Stop Woke” act in a ruling that called the legislation “positively dystopian;” and, Starbucks workers went on strike at more than one hundred US stores.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands of people marched through central Athens to mark the anniversary of the 1973 student uprising; and, Vice President Harris has arrived in Thailand for the Asia-Pacific summit.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, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Republican party is “in ruin.”Then, on the rest of the menu, two Republicans who control the elected board in a rural Arizona county have sued their own elections director to force a greatly expanded hand-count of ballots, that could affect certification of the results; a key Federal Reserve official suggested the central bank will likely slow the pace of its interest rate hikes beginning in December; and, the Energy Department awarded nearly $74 million from the bipartisan infrastructure law to advance recycling and reuse of batteries for electric vehicles.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a federal judge handed down a 20-year prison sentence to a Chinese national who was convicted in a US aviation spying case; and, a Cambodia wildlife official has been jailed in New York for monkey smuggling.All that and

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 wrongly thinks running again will shield him from the DOJ.Then, on the rest of the menu, a comprehensive report found new-officer training presents an ‘immediate crisis for policing;’ a bipartisan Senate report detailed “aggressive and unethical” medical mistreatment of women immigration detainees at ICE facilities; and, Trump holdovers at DHS are mostly responsible for blocking vital research on domestic threats.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a convicted French Holocaust denier has been arrested in Scotland after a two year search; and, Britain’s polar research ship is preparing for its second voyage to Antarctica to investigate sea level rises and threats to marine biodiversity.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, MAGA Republicans claim to want distance from Donald Trump after the massive midterms losses, while ignoring their extremist Tea Party roots.Then, on the rest of the menu, the last suspect has been sentenced in a California truck driving licensing scandal that put hundreds of unqualified big-rig drivers on the nation’s highways; former Los Angeles Dodger Yasiel Puig will plead guilty to lying to the feds about a sports gambling ring; and, officials from six nations spent more than $750,000 at Trump’s DC hotel as they were trying to influence his administration.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union warned Serbia and Kosovo against returning to their violent past; and, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution calling for Russia to be held accountable for violating international law, includin

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, Democrats defied midterm expectations not only in the national races, but also by making historic gains in state legislatures.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Republican-engineered shorter voting window could cut turnout in the Georgia runoff; the US Merchant Marine Academy will get its first female superintendent in the eighty-year history of the institution; and, a tech CEO is spending millions to stop Elon Musk.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where liberal rights advocate Natasa Pirc Musar won the runoff to become Slovenia’s first female head of state; and, the United Nations is investigating allegations of misconduct by Egyptian police providing security at this year’s international COP27 climate talks.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; Blue Moon Spirits Friday!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans are paying the price for right wing extremism in the midterms.On the rest of the menu, California seeks to pair home energy storage and rooftop solar; work was stopped after a noose was found at the Obama Presidential Center construction site in Chicago; and, US authorities are investigating crypto exchange FTX.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week; and, the US will buy one hundred thousand rounds of howitzer artillery from South Korean manufacturers to provide to Ukraine.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 profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend ma

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, Trump is privately "very angry" after the disappointing performance for Republicans in the midterm elections.Then, on the rest of the menu, the CDC is conducting a new study to determine whether veterans were exposed to dangerously high levels of cancer-causing toxins at the now-shuttered Fort Ord military base in California; a Virginia judge ordered Gingrich to testify in the Georgia election probe; and, Twitter’s new owner sold nearly $4 billion worth of Tesla shares, totaling more than $19 billion liquidated since April.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO announced its next leaders’ summit will be in Lithuania; and, Holocaust survivors from around the world warned about the reemergence of antisemitism as they marked the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Spea

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, voters voting against Dobbs, Deniers and Donald lifted the Dems in the midterms.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court seemed unlikely to agree to overturn decades of precedent in a case about civil rights lawsuits; over one million Americans with diabetes rationed their insulin in the past year; and, Colgate University is returning fifteen hundred funerary artifacts to the Oneida Indian Nation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hackers published the personal medical records of over ten million customers after Australian health insurer Medibank refused to pay a ransom; and, a senior UK government member resigned after mounting allegations that he bullied colleagues.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, “Republicans who have given in to fascist elements are trying to nuke democracy.”Then, on the rest of the menu, an Arizona judge blocked a Republican effort to delay election results by hand-counting all ballots; Biden legislation is funding the largest community air pollution monitoring program in EPA history; and, the Justice Department has sent monitors to twenty-four states in an effort to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws in today’s elections.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Philippine authorities filed murder charges against the nation’s top prisons official in the killing of a radio commentator; and, China lashed out over a visit to Taiwan by British Trade Policy Minister, Greg Hands.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~