111.  While they lasted, the good times were better for Massachusetts than they were in many other states.

112.  While westerners have always considered coyotes a threat to the feline population, many other states are seeing an increase in the problem.

113.  While Louisiana could become the first state to uproot its casinos and video poker machines, gambling is having a hard time advancing in many other states.

114.  BOCA drafts construction codes that carry the force of law in Virginia and many other states.

115.  But Utah, like many other states, has no standards for cleaning up former meth labs.

116.  Colorado, like many other states, has group homes for rapists, child molesters and other sex offenders undergoing therapy.

117.  Many other states saw lower growth than they expected.

118.  Resorts in many other states also fared poorly.

119.  Such Internet transmission of legislative proceedings is the way many other states appear to be going, according to staffers in New York.

120.  The practice of wooing industry is alive and well in many other states, and so is the debate over whether financial giveaways are worth their economic while.