East Coast

'So, What Do You Do?'

Emile Hirsch | Posted 04.25.2012

Emile Hirsch

Is there really that much of a gap of conversation etiquette or philosophy between the East and West coast that one can't ask "What do you do?" to a new acquaintance in New York?

PHOTOS: Springtime In Northeast Resort Towns

JustLuxe | Posted 04.17.2012

JustLuxe

With an early spring bringing unusually warm weather, East Coast resort towns are starting to anticipate their busy season coming right around the corner.

The Rebirth of Middle America

Jay Pelosky | Posted 05.13.2012

Jay Pelosky

For the first time in decades, Middle America is beginning to generate private sector interest and investor dollars. While the East Coast works off the financial bubble and the West Coast encounters a defense spending down cycle, the heartland beckons as America's new area of economic opportunity.

Hurricane Katia Grows To Category 4 Storm

AP | Posted 11.05.2011

MIAMI — Hurricane Katia has roared to a monstrous Category 4 storm as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean. On Monday night, Katia's maximum sust...

Meatless Monday: Natural Disaster, Natural Comfort Food

Ellen Kanner | Posted 10.29.2011

Ellen Kanner

Long before it was a Disney flick, ratatouille was -- and is -- a deeply soothing summery stew of eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, onions and peppers.

Hurricane Watch: Protecting Our Ocean Sentries

Vikki N. Spruill | Posted 10.26.2011

Vikki N. Spruill

As the East Coast residents prepare for the worst and hope for the best, it is hard to escape the memory of Hurricane Katrina, which wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast at this moment six years ago.

Customers Rush To Hardware Stores With Hurricane Approaching

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 10.26.2011

NEW YORK — It's the not-so-quiet before the storm. Hurricane Irene hasn't hit the East Coast yet, but people up and down the Eastern Seaboard a...

All Shook Up on the East Coast

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.25.2011

Bill Chameides

We just had an East Coast quake of 5.8 and these plants are designed to withstand quakes of a mere few tenths magnitude larger. Is that a safe margin?

Earthquake Etiquette: In the Eye of the Storm Don't Put Your Foot in Your Mouth

Christal Smith | Posted 10.24.2011

Christal Smith

It will take several days to gauge the overall fall out from yesterday's estimated 5.9 quake centered in Virginia, but it didn't take long for West Coasters to get extra snarky on Twitter and Facebook.

LA Memories of Cape Cod Summers

Bill Blanning | Posted 10.24.2011

Bill Blanning

I've mostly adapted from my Cape Cod roots to Southern California. But summer isn't really summer until I get back to the Cape, with gin and tonics at sunset and the glow of a sunburn at the end of the day.

Lila Shapiro

Workers Put Verizon On Hold: Portray Strike As Defense Of Middle Class Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.07.2011

NEW YORK -- Outside Verizon corporate headquarters in downtown Manhattan, a group of more than 40 union employees gathered wearing red shirts and plac...

The Midwest Cat I Met After My East Coast Divorce

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

Dave Astor

An orange tabby fond of a yellow cornfield was driven 700 miles in a red car to a blue state with smaller expanses of green.

Census Bureau Survey Draws Attention to Need for More Proactive Multicultural Approach

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011

Louis Provenzano

The release this past week of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) makes it clear that America's ethnic makeup is changing much quicker...

Endangered Alaskan Oil Spills Safe

John Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

John Marshall

"What is it, Yogi?" "Hey hey hey - it's an oil company on its way to drill off the Alaskan coast." "And they call me Boo-Boo." WASHINGTON - The O...

Weekly Mulch: Want to Combat Climate Change? Ignore Congress.

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Congress comes back into session next week, but environmentalists and climate change activists have given ...

East Coast States Brace For Yet Another Scorching Day

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — It's blistering. Scorching. Steamy. Brutal. Baking. Torrid. Ovenlike. It's run-out-of-adjectives hot. "A volcano – that's what...

Gulf Stream May Send Oil Spill Up East Coast

AP | ALLEN G. BREED and SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

VENICE, La. — A sense of doom settled over the American coastline from Louisiana to Florida on Saturday as a massive oil slick spewing from a ru...

Why East Coast Natives Should Eat More West Coast Oysters (VIDEO)

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.25.2011

Liza de Guia

Shared from food. curated. So where do YOUR loyalties lie? East Coast or West Coast Oysters? I found a Native New Yorker who wants to share why she t...

DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

DK Matai

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

Every Break Will Change

Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2011

Robbie Gennet

Every break will change. Pipeline. Teahupoo. Your local favorite. Some may get better, some may disappear. There will be new ones. But every surf break will change when the oceans rise.

Jason Linkins

SHOCK: Offshore Drilling Decision Seems Unlikely To Result In GOP Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

As mentioned before, the conventional wisdom on President Obama's decision to backtrack on his previous support for a moratorium on drilling is that h...

Jason Linkins

Obama Announces Drilling Policy In Front Of Toyota Prius Of Fighter Planes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

President Barack Obama, despite having previously supported a moratorium on offshore oil drilling during the 2008 presidential campaign, has announced...

Obama Oil Drilling Plan: East Coast, Alaska Waters Could Open For Drilling

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Scroll down to watch video of President Obama arguing against offshore drilling during his 2008 presidential campaign. (Washington/AP) Reversing a ba...

FLOODED: East Coast Rains May Break Records

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 05.25.2011

BOSTON — Nervous residents along the sodden East Coast watched rivers rise Monday as they braced for a new round of flooding – and the wet...

Study Reveals That Women In Western States Breastfeed More Than Eastern States

hosted.ap.org | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.25.2011

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