101.  It will be the first large industrial state to vote.

102.  It was the first state to elect a woman lieutenant governor.

103.  It was the first state to legalize abortion.

104.  It was the first state to let you pay taxes by phone, and the first to put purchasing contracts on the Internet.

105.  It would have made California the first state to have such a law, she said.

106.  Keating, a Democrat, said the bill would make Massachusetts the first state to have a law prohibiting convictions from being posthumously erased.

107.  Kentucky recently became the first state to embed a black-and-white electronic version of the photograph in the bar code.

108.  Last week, Washington became the first state to enact an anti-spamming law.

109.  Last month, North Dakota became the first state to make growing and selling industrial hemp legal.

110.  Last month, Oregon became the first state to approve pole-vaulting for women as a standard event in high school programs.