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Planned Parenthood controversy spurs state bill that would criminalize research.

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It was that ruling that has spurred state lawmakers to try to change the constitution.

Its introduction would mark a welcome political and economic shift, removing barriers, freeing internal trade and spurring state competition.

While it grants corporations and unions new access, it is also likely to spur state officials and campaign reform groups to push for new types of restrictions.

That leaves little room for the kind of sympathy that spurred state lawmakers to break with Gov. George Pataki and help the city last year.

"Why would anybody take that chance?" However parents are responding, the death has spurred state officials to look for ways that camps like Mr. Long's might be regulated.

"It's been a learning experience," said Stuart Vos, the department's revenue operations administrator, who has ripped open some envelopes himself and said the experience had spurred state tax officials to consider changing the state's tax forms next year to make them easier to process.

Furthermore, she said, even if the administration's Race to the Top grant competition may have worked in leveraging change in K-12 schools, higher education is so different that it is not clear that the president's proposal for a similar competition to spur state higher-education reform would be a good tool.

The heat spurred state regulators to urge residents to voluntarily cut their consumption of electricity Monday.

M-143, also known as Michigan Avenue, is a previously unsigned spur state trunkline highway in the south central region of the US state of Michigan.