Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, observers claim that actually, there is nothing unusual how a Texas police chief can go AWOL, and still be secretly sworn in to the Uvalde city council while federal investigators are trying to contact him.



On the rest of the menu, TEDx Portland may have run afoul of IRS rules by hosting Oregon’s independent gubernatorial hopeful, who is one of the state’s 6,740 machine gun owners; inspectors general need more authority to go after fraud in the COVID-19 relief programs; and, a former executive of a California solar power company was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in a $1 billion fraud scheme.



After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a thirty-two year-old French reporter became the eighth journalist killed while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and, the new Australian government includes a record thirteen women ministers.



All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.



Bon Appétit!

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"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”

-- Shauna Niequist
"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"