41.  Hawaii is the first American state where legal challenges have been brought against using tax dollars to promote more visitor growth.

42.  GOP-DEBATE (Manchester, N.H.) _ Republican field seeking presidential nomination has its first major debate in the first primary state.

43.  Gov. Pete Wilson recently signed legislation that makes California the first state to enact such a requirement before property can be transferred.

44.  Gov. Tommy Thompson has signed far-reaching legislation that would, if he gets Washington's approval, make Wisconsin the first state to end its welfare program.

45.  Hawaii may become the first state to legalize same-sex marriages, raising related issues in other states.

46.  He is scheduled to speak in Maine on Saturday night and to spend the rest of the weekend in New Hampshire, the first primary state.

47.  He noted that he had just spent seven days in Iowa before going to Louisiana and that he supports Iowa as the first caucus state.

48.  He praised Gov. Christie Whitman for making New Jersey the first state to take sweeping measures to stop racial profiling.

49.  He sued 17 power plants in other states over air pollution that blows across state lines, making New York the first state to try that tactic.

50.  Here in the first primary state, the issues that voters are most concerned with are not always lofty matters of national security or domestic policy.