Hawaii

Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guantanamo Bay, and the US Virgin Islands all run the same two-part logic: something worth having, paired with denying it to a rival power. Every one…

Alaska was bought for $7.2 million in 1867, about two cents an acre. A 1971 land settlement split the state's land among corporations rather than a trust like Hawaii's -- which…

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco folds Hawaii into a nine-state region already dominated by California -- there's no separate Hawaii reading to pull out. It's one of…

Alaska and Hawaii both report into the San Francisco Fed district — the same district that already dominates every national reading. Their own sentiment is invisible by…