<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Maine</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/me?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><description>Maine</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[Panel Questions Patriot Act Uses]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21669-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21669-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence   pushed the nation's top law enforcement and intelligence officials yesterday to share more information on the use and effectiveness of the most controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act.]]></description><author> Dana Priest</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Spars Over Drug Import Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2434-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2434-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Party divisions over whether to allow Americans to import lower-priced  medications from such countries  as Canada exploded in an unusually public and personal exchange between two New England lawmakers.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making Books]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55004-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55004-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, ever needs reminding why his work matters, he can just think back to an incident two years ago at the Owl and Turtle Bookshop in Camden, Maine: Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo was signing books, and Gissler, having just taken the job, was curious about the impact of the prize on an author's life. So he posed the question to the novelist, who had published four midlist books before the prize-winning Empire Falls.]]></description><author> Marina Krakovsky</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt Help From G-7 Urged by Protesters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57478-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57478-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Protesters kicked off a weekend of anti-globalization demonstrations with a lone drum and  just over 50 people outside the Treasury building yesterday.]]></description><author> Petula Dvorak</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FDA Is Urged to Ban Some Farm Antibiotics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35335-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35335-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A coalition of public health and environmental advocates petitioned the Food and Drug Administration yesterday to ban the use of seven classes of antibiotics commonly used on farms to speed the growth of livestock.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</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/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57650-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 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[Md. Bill On 'Life Partners' Advances]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2045-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2045-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Unmarried "life partners," including gay couples, would be empowered to make health and funeral decisions for each other under legislation approved Friday by the Maryland Senate.]]></description><author> John Wagner</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dunn Deal on Lobbying]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61434-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61434-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former House member Jennifer Dunn (R-Wash.) started work this week at the law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US as a senior adviser in its government affairs practice group.]]></description><author> Judy Sarasohn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Names Head For Personnel Agency]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47587-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47587-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bush will nominate Linda M. Springer, a former financial management specialist at the Office of Management and Budget, to become the next director of the Office of Personnel Management.]]></description><author> Christopher Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voinovich Now Backs Pay-as-You-Go Budget]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34877-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34877-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Ohio Republican now supports an amendment that would force future tax cuts to be financed by spending reductions or other revenue hikes.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interactive Blogs Change Class Participation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Wikis create freewheeling, collaborative communities for students to edit one another's work and bounce ideas around.]]></description><author> Susan Kinzie</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congressional Panels Offer Budget Blueprints]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18244-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18244-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The House and Senate Budget committees will unveil fiscal blueprints Wednesday that pave the way for additional tax relief while seeking billions in spending cuts that target Medicaid and many other domestic programs.]]></description><author> Shailagh Murray  and Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security Could Curb Birding at  Bay Tunnel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15599-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15599-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Security concerns at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel have prompted officials to propose a ban on bird-watching from most of the 20-mile span between the Eastern Shore and Virginia Beach, and distraught birders are waging a phone and fax campaign against it.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inquiry Into NASA Finances Looks at Ex-Chief]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33061-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33061-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A congressional investigation of misuse of funds at the NASA is focusing in on possible abuses by recently departed NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, the Associated Press reported.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustrated Democrats Find a Voice]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24511-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24511-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[These are frustrating times for the Democratic Party, shut out of power in the White House, the House and the Senate.  Democrats don't have power to call hearings, to subpoena witnesses or to move legislation. But they  still have the power to raise a ruckus.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Papers Offer New Clues On 9/11 Hijackers' Travel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19784-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19784-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Declassified documents from the Sept. 11 commission released  last week offer new clues to a lingering mystery of the 2001 terrorist attacks: Why did the plot's mastermind, Mohamed Atta, begin his journey that day in Portland, Maine, instead of Boston?]]></description><author> Sara Kehaulani Goo</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington Area Bestsellers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15598-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15598-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obituaries]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12620-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12620-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Domenick Joseph Arone    Publisher  <br>Domenick Joseph Arone, 85, a retired publisher of newspapers, magazines and shoppers' publications, died Feb. 4 of complications from cardiac and pulmonary fibrosis at his residence at the Virginian in the Fairfax City area. Mr. Arone, who was known as "Dom" or "DJ," had lived in the area since 1948, primarily in Fairfax City and Centreville.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush's Rhetoric Splits House Chamber Between Throaty Roars and Stony Silence]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59093-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59093-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On issue after issue -- Social Security, gay marriage, energy, taxes and lawsuit restrictions -- President Bush's rhetoric split the House chamber between the throaty roars of Republican conservatives and the stony silence and occasionally outright heckling of the Democrats.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats Claim Votes to Halt Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55567-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55567-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/me</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats have increased pressure on Bush to begin outlining a plan that might offer enough compromises or incentives to win over at least a handful of Democrats.]]></description><author> Charles Babington  and Mike Allen</author></item></channel></rss>