So what could possibly knock Hawaii, the "aloha" or "welcome" state, off its wave?
This welcome state of panic amnesia is a credit to our watchful health departments, which for the past 150 years have taken up the difficult task of both disease and panic prevention.
If progressives fail to reclaim the narrative for government management and populism, these ideas may well be co-opted by other movements that also welcome state intervention, but coupled with a reactionary social and cultural program.
Until a recent change in policy under the Bush administration, Justice Stevens wrote, the drug agency had welcomed state injury suits as a useful complement to federal regulation.
For many years the F.D.A. welcomed state failure-to-warn suits as reinforcing those efforts; two former commissioners, David Kessler and Donald Kennedy, made that point in a brief in the case.
In New Jersey, where the DCCC had welcomed state Sen. Jeff Van Drew to the race, a rival Democrat named Sean Thom published an open letter asking the party why it had embraced a candidate who deviated from his party on gun rights.
Hamilton also suggested the first stock to be offered at $500,000 and to eventually increase to $1 million, and welcomed state and national government subscriptions alike.
The administration signaled late last year that it welcomes state-based ideas to retool Medicaid and "help individuals live up to their highest potential". At least 10 states have requested waivers that would allow them to impose work requirements and other obligations.
The EU, he said, "remains willing to welcome other states, who are ready to accept the requirements for admission".
The early data will be welcome in states and localities that want to put an end to prison-based gerrymandering.
