Ni hao, y’all! Asian-Americans move in

Howdy, y’all! Or should that also be "ni hao" or "xin chao"?

Increasingly, states like Texas, Nevada and Arizona are seeing more Asian-Americans moving in as immigration moves beyond traditional spots such as Hawaii, California and New York.

Over the last decade, Asian-Americans grew 72 percent to more than 1.1 million in Texas, giving it more Asian-Americans than Hawaii, says a new report from the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice.

"Communities that aren’t used to having Asian-Americans in the mix of their neighbors are going to start seeing Asian-Americans aren’t just foreigners who live in Chinatowns in Los Angeles or New York," said Karin Wang of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, "but are people who live around the corner."

At the controls of American air supremacy

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam could serve as the base of operations for the U.S. military’s most lethal aircraft — minus the actual aircraft, that is. Hickam and two other bases are in the running for a 280-member unmanned aerial vehicle squadron, a unit that controls the lethal UAVs from secure control stations thousands of miles removed from the field of battle. It makes one wonder about what lies ahead for the old Hickam Air Force Base of our imagination, bristling with airplanes and elite pilots. What will America’s air power look like in the future — Top Gun or a windowless office park?