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, Trump has “no reputation to protect.”Then, on the rest of the menu, citing the 14th Amendment, a judge in New Mexico ordered Otero County Commissioner and Cowboys for Trump Couy Griffin, removed from office, effective immediately; Steve Bannon now faces a state indictment in New York over the federal conviction Trump pardoned him for; and, California authorities, the FBI and DHS report that the cyberattack that disabled computer systems across the Los Angeles Unified School District over the holiday weekend, was criminal in nature.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where long simmering tensions are at a dangerous level after Turkish President Erdogan issued a thinly-veiled invasion threat against NATO ally Greece; and, Japan’s defense minister has ordered a special investigation into growing reports of sexual assault after

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, rather than being a simple “storage issue,” Trump stole secret material and a special master won’t save him.Then, on the rest of the menu, the National Labor Relations Board reversed a Trump-era decision by ruling that Tesla must let workers wear union clothing; California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark law for fast food workers; and, the military contractor who plead guilty to orchestrating the “Fat Leonard” corruption scandal, escaped house arrest in San Diego.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Irish regulators slapped Instagram with a $402 million dollar fine for violating the European Union’s strict data privacy rules; and, a former journalist was convicted of treason by a Moscow court that handed down a 22-year prison sentence after a trial widely seen as politically motivated.All that and more, on West Coa

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, new details from an unsealed inventory list of what the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago is explained.Then, on the rest of the menu, the chance of California power outages drastically increased as the ongoing heat wave worsens; a state of emergency was declared as flash flooding hits northwest Georgia; and, an investigative journalist has died after being stabbed outside his Las Vegas home.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where artist Ai Weiwei warns against hubris in these ‘troublesome’ times; and, a British con artist, who is the subject of a Netflix documentary, has been arrested in Belgium after fleeing from France.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

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's argument over a special master is really about discrediting the DOJ in the public eye than it is about making a legal argument.On the rest of the menu, seven Florida clerics filed for a temporary injunction, saying the state’s extremist abortion law violates their freedom of speech, religious liberty and the Constitution’s establishment clause; a conservative Wisconsin activist who said voter fraud is easy to commit faces election charges after getting caught; and, an abortion rights group asked the Michigan Supreme Court to approve a November ballot question on whether a right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a man tried to kill Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández outside her home; and, US federal agents simultaneously searched properties in 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’s recent filing insists they are not the mobsters, the DOJ is.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Library of Congress launched an internal probe of the controversial remodel that will alter the ornate Main Reading Room in its historical Thomas Jefferson Building; national test scores plunged during the pandemic; and, Texas governor Greg Abbott looked Uvalde families in the eye and lied that raising the age to purchase weapons like those used to slaughter their kids, would be unconstitutional.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a rapid deployment team of FBI cyber experts is headed to Montenegro to investigate a massive, coordinated attack on the tiny Balkan nation’s government; and, German prosecutors raided the office of JPMorgan Chase in Frankfurt as part of a broader tax evasion investigation.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, Lindsey Graham lied because he’s “afraid of his own words.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Dominion Voting Systems deposed Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro and others in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit; a House oversight subcommittee called for vigorous cryptocurrency fraud oversight; and, the Justice Department will no longer allow political appointees to go to fundraisers and other campaign events.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a European plan for floating gas terminals raises climate fears; and, China has placed millions of its citizens under renewed lockdown following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every cru

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, not once has Trump explained why all those classified and other sensitive US documents were being kept at his not-at all-secure golf resort.Then, on the rest of the menu, Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency after monsoon rains flooded the Mississippi capital and shut down its water treatment plant; federal regulators sued a data broker accused of selling sensitive geolocation data from millions of mobile devices; and, Facebook settled its lawsuit in the Stephen Bannon / Cambridge Analytica scandal.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian journalist has been charged with funding an extremist organization by donating $16 to a Navalny foundation; and, leaders of the European Union and Germany pledged reforms to cut electricity prices.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de C

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 documents seized from Mar a Lago are the “crown jewels” of the intel community.On the rest of the menu, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold a Jim Crow voting law that Mississippi’s white-supremacist leaders adopted in 1890 in an attempt to disenfranchise Black residents for life; a Nebraska high school shuttered the school’s award-winning fifty-four year old student newspaper just days after its last edition that included articles and editorials on LGBTQ issues; and, widespread voting machine tampering during the primaries by Trump activists is causing a concern for the fall election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Myanmar’s military junta arrested a former British ambassador and her husband, and are holding them in a prison labor camp, for not filing out a change of address form on time; and, Italy

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, “love letters” between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un going missing after Trump left office may have tipped off the National Archives.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump-friendly rodeo announcer’s politically charged remarks at the Northwest Washington Fair, dissatisfied hundreds of audience members, with some vowing never to return; ex-interior secretary Zinke lied to investigators in a Indian casino case; and, President Joe Biden named the first woman as the next director of the Secret Service.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Mexican judge accepted charges against the ex-prosecutor in the 2014 disappearance of forty-three students; and, Germany is exporting power to France, while urging savings at home.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appéti

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, new reporting shows the extent, and sometimes even exclusivity of Donald Trump's role in stealing sensitive documents from the White House.Then, on the rest of the menu, responding to an increasing number of violent right wing threats to its workers, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it was conducting a comprehensive safety review at its facilities; a federal jury convicted two men of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer; and, an English teacher at a high school in Oklahoma was fired after she provided students with a QR code for free access to e-books from the Brooklyn Library.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two top officials of Hungary’s meteorological service were fired after an inaccurate rain forecast; and, women around the world are dancing in solidarity with Finnish Prime Minister

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, “Mr Trump went through the boxes himself.”Then, on the rest of the menu, new polls show majorities of Americans want stricter gun laws; after enduring continuous harassment, the entire election staff of a rural Texas county abruptly quit, seventy days before the election; and, a grand jury ordered Walmart to pay an Oregon man $4.4 million dollars for racial profiling.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where pandemic anti-mandate protesters converged on the New Zealand Parliament; and, the Germany Environment Ministry reported there is no single cause for the massive Oder River fish die-off.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the c

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, America’s schools are facing a shortage of three hundred thousand teachers and staff nationwide.Then, on the rest of the menu, the equity language in the Minneapolis teacher contract has ignited a firestorm among white conservative groups; housing benefits for military families lag as rents explode; and, after a five-year review, US protections for Idaho salmon and steelhead must stay in effect.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a planned strike at Britain’s biggest shipping port has added to the disrupted economic activity across the country; and, African migratory birds are threatened by hot, dry weather that has depleted natural water systems and caused a devastating drought.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, there has been a "dangerous" and significant shift by right-wing militia groups.On the rest of the menu, a federal judge blocked Florida from enforcing a new state law that limits how private companies teach diversity and inclusion in the workplace; Utah officials secretly investigated a high school female athlete’s gender after some sore loser parents complained her margin of victory was too good; and, the FTC threatened to sue an Idaho-based adtech firm for revealing abortion clinic visits.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where following Erdogan’s unorthodox economic views, Turkey’s central bank lowered its key interest rate, despite inflation surging to nearly 80%; and, an iconic lighthouse at the northern German port of Bremen has tilted sideways and could soon topple over entirely into the sea.All that and more, on West

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 new DeSantis-ordered Florida teacher training downplays the role of slavery in US history.Then, on the rest of the menu, Weisselberg’s plea deal could make Trump a prosecution witness; Alex Jones’ lawyer faces a disciplinary hearing in Connecticut; and, Oregon’s chief justice denied that a personality conflict led her to fire all members of a commission that governs the Office of Public Defense Services.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a UN investigator reported that contemporary forms of slavery are widely practiced around the world; and, Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to thirty-four years in prison over her critical Twitter activity.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Everyone in this good city e

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, Justice Department lawyers asked the judge who approved the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago to keep the accompanying affidavit under seal.Then, on the rest of the menu, the IRS says teachers can now deduct more for out-of-pocket expenses for the classroom; immigration advocates sued LexisNexis over personal data sold to ICE: and, the special board appointed by President Joe Biden to intervene in stalled railroad contract talks, suggested that 115,000 rail workers should get 24% raises and thousands of dollars in bonuses.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China’s worst heat wave in six decades has dried up reservoirs used to generate hydropower; and, Russia’s Defense Ministry warned Britain against a planned spy plane flight over Russian territory.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cu

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, a former top espionage prosecutor at the Justice Department explained what matters, and what doesn’t, in the Trump secret documents probe.Then, on the rest of the menu, Amazon workers walked off the job mid shift at a major West Coast air hub over low wages and heat safety; Starbucks wants the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily suspend all union elections at its US stores; and, Corporate America is facing its first tax on stock buybacks in the Biden bill.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison took on extra ministerial powers in secret; and, denying Tehran was behind the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, an Iranian official said he deserved it, though.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, the rhetoric and threats against FBI agents and Department of Justice officials in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago search is reminiscent of events leading up to the January 6 insurrection.Then, on the rest of the menu, a state police inquiry found evidence the MAGAt plot in Michigan to breach voting machines points to a coordinated national pattern; some of the arrested Capitol insurgents are trying to profit from their January 6 crimes; and, Krysten Sinema took over a million dollars of Wall Street money over the past year, and then killed the carried interest tax on private equity profits.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italian right-wing nationalist parties threaten European democracy; and, Zofia Posmysz, whose semi-autobiographical Holocaust story “The Passenger,” which reached the opera stage, has died at age ninety-eig

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, damning new details on the timeline leading up to the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago compound have emerged.On the rest of the menu, a lawsuit by a municipal pension fund accuses Glenn Younkin of a profit and tax avoidance scheme; the Federal Trade Commission is looking at rules to corral tech firm data collection; and, over two billion dollars has been earmarked by the Transportation Department for local infrastructure, paving the way for new bridges, roads, bike lanes, railways and ports.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union expressed concern that a new US tax credit aimed at encouraging Americans to buy electric vehicles would break World Trade Organization rules; and, London children have been offered the polio vaccine booster as the virus is found in the city’s wastewater.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, “Trump knows what the FBI found” at Mar a Lago.Then, on the rest of the menu, Lindsey Graham is pulling out all the stops to quash his subpoena in the Georgia election probe; lower prices are offering Americans a slight reprieve from inflation; and, an Arizona county where the August 2 primary election was beset with multiple issues, will waive the costs for running municipal elections in eleven cities and towns.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where water levels on the Rhine River could reach a critically low point in the coming days, making it increasingly difficult to transport goods; and, the leaders of Estonia and Finland want their fellow European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens.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, “there is no uprising” for Trump after the FBI search, but the media continues to distort the reaction of a tiny number of Trump’s followers.Then, on the rest of the menu, companies are increasing investment as Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act boosting the US semiconductor industry; Ramsey County, Minnesota settled a racial discrimination suit against the Sheriff’s Office for running a ‘whites only jail’ to guard Derek Chauvin; and, the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs will take place without any of the golfers who defected to the Saudi-funded Bone Saw Invitational Series.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States is returning thirty “looted Bronze Age antiquities” to Cambodia; and, Nagasaki paid tribute to the victims of the US atomic bombing seventy-seven years ago yesterday, August 9.All that and more