People on the East Coast couldn't care less.

My guess is that the farther you get away from the East Coast, the less the impact Sept. 11 has had on state sunshine laws.

On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.

I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

The American people still have the God-given right to defend the integrity of the territory, their sovereignty and their national security, and they will do so if the federal government fails in its constitutional duty.