West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jack Smith’s effort to block Donald Trump from spreading disinformation in court is explained.Then, on the rest of the menu, lacking any federal regulation to protect the consumer, a new Oregon law requires data brokers register with state agencies before selling personal information; New Mexico environmental officials have proposed a new regulatory framework for reusing fracking wastewater; and, a conservative, all-white Missouri school board reversed itself after a contentious public outcry, and will reinstate Black history classes, but with a new curriculum.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian poet received a seven-year prison sentence for reciting verses against the war in Ukraine; and, another one of those rich ass oligarch Russian lawmakers has been found dead, after another o