<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Alaska</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/ak?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><description>Alaska</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Unveils Energy Proposals]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21653-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21653-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Industry analysts reacted skeptically to new energy proposals President Bush announced yesterday, saying they would do little to bring down soaring prices of gasoline and other forms of energy.]]></description><author> Justin Blum and Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Loan Proposed to Rescue Alaska Power Plant]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12419-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12419-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Years ago, the federal government spent $117 million on an experimental "clean coal" power plant in Alaska designed to generate electricity with a minimum of air pollution  --  but the project never got up and running.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Town Debates Drilling in Refuge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10253-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10253-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Many Inupiat Eskimos, long supporters of drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge they call home, now question whether opening the refuge will endanger their way of life.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay in Bolton Vote Concerns White House]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10449-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10449-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has set a vote over John R. Bolton's nomination as ambassador to the United Nations for May 12  --  a delay that Bush administration officials acknowledged yesterday is  increasing their anxieties about Bolton's prospects.]]></description><author> John F. Harris  and Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Urges Action 'Now' On Energy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5001-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5001-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush called on Congress to pass his national energy policy by August to begin weaning the nation from imported oil and transitioning to alternative sources of power and fuel.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei  and Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alaskan Wolf Pack Loses a Member]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6018-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6018-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SEATTLE, April 20  --  An Alaskan wolf  --  a black male that led the world's longest-studied, most-photographed family of wolves  --  was killed last weekend by a hunter outside Denali National Park.]]></description><author> Blaine Harden</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rep. Barton Faces Energy Challenge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51236-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51236-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rep. Joe Barton has evolved over the past 20 years from a maverick conservative willing to cast lonely, defiant votes into a central political figure who cuts deals and raises millions of dollars for his colleagues and who marshaled a small army of lobbyists to secure for himself a powerful chairmanship.]]></description><author> Thomas B. Edsall  and Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Committee Backs Drilling in Alaska]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51215-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51215-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A House panel is endorsing drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, advancing a key element of the Bush administration's energy plan.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[House and Senate Panels Tackle Energy Measures]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48027-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48027-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The House Energy and Commerce Committee plowed through numerous proposed amendments yesterday while trying to draft an energy bill that can attract widespread support, after repeated failures by Congress to pass legislation embracing Bush administration energy initiatives.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nominee Backs a Review  of NASA's Hubble Decision]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47810-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47810-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Michael D. Griffin, President Bush's nominee to become the new NASA administrator, told senators at his confirmation hearing yesterday that he would reassess the agency's decision to cancel a space shuttle mission to service the aging Hubble Space Telescope.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Thousand Roads': Paved With Good Intentions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45380-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45380-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The National Museum of the American Indian has produced a slick, high-end short film to play in its state-of-the-art auditorium. And from the looks of the 43-minute movie's pedigree and production values, it has spared no expense. "A Thousand Roads," which loosely connects a series of vignettes of Native life, not only looks great but hews faithfully to the museum's overarching ethos of celebrating the contemporary Native experience throughout the Western Hemisphere.]]></description><author> Ann Hornaday</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FCC Head Downplays Regulation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28496-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28496-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cable companies worried about a regulatory clampdown on their industry got good news Wednesday when they met the new Federal Communications Commission chairman.]]></description><author> Frank Ahrens</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous Denali Wolf Pack Faces Demise]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23709-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23709-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The longest-studied, most-photographed group of wolves in the world is now at risk from trappers operating just outside the border of the Alaska national park.]]></description><author> Blaine Harden</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Eagles Dare]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21930-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21930-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the Town of Homer, handouts are turning a proud symbol into a pest.]]></description><author> Blaine Harden</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Boosts Business]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3796-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3796-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fortune 500 companies that invested millions of dollars in electing Republicans are emerging as the earliest beneficiaries of a government controlled by President Bush and the largest GOP House and Senate majority in a half century.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mapping America's Epic Conquests]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57650-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57650-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ They set out in tiny ships or on horseback, looking for gold and glory. What they found was a new land  --  with adventure, courage, politics, greed, cruelty and treachery along the way.]]></description><author> Judith S. Gillies</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anti-Indecency Forces Face Opposition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1962-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1962-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The push to crack down harder on radio and television indecency, which rose to national attention with Janet Jackson's brief exposure during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, is beginning to stir pockets of opposition.]]></description><author> Frank Ahrens</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Rejects GOP Budget Cuts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44042-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44042-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate last night dealt a slap to President Bush and the Republican leadership, approving a 2006 budget that would gut much of the GOP's deficit-reduction efforts by restoring requested cuts to Medicaid, education, community development and other programs.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Votes to Open Refuge to Drilling]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40670-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40670-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With the price of crude oil reaching an all-time high, the U.S. Senate narrowly voted today to open a wildlife refuge in Alaska to oil drilling, an approval long sought by President Bush as part of his energy policy.]]></description><author> Justin Blum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Little Irish Luck Goes a Long Way]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41883-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41883-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ak</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 4:06:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITY  --  Every afternoon, Gustavo Hernandez puts a sign on his old station wagon, parks at a busy intersection and waits for customers in need of "a bit of Irish luck."]]></description><author> Mary Jordan</author></item></channel></rss>