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.
And he saw the chance for redemption that the financial crisis offered a strategic opportunity for welcome state activism that only a party of the left could seize (even if, in Labour's case, doing so involved junking many of its economic shibboleths).But another part of the explanation has been Mr Cameron's own awkward response to the crisis.
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.
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 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.
"Your performance onsite will be monitored and if you do not meet the expectations of Sports Direct then your assignment will be terminated," its welcome letter states.
