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 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