West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Tricia Cotham, the North Carolina lawmaker who switched parties and handed the GOP-gerrymandered state legislature a veto-proof majority, was courted by top GOP officials before the election.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Texas man was found not guilty after he was ticketed for feeding homeless people in Houston; a federal judge ruled that it would violate Idaho medical providers’ free speech rights to sanction them for referring patients to out-of-state abortion services; and, a grand jury charged two top Michigan Republicans in connection with voting machine tampering during the 2020 election ballot count.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a bill aimed at halting criticism of Pakistani intelligence figures is expected to become law; and, the United States will put forward a UN Security Co