<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Montana</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/mt?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><description>Montana</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[Audit Urges End of IRS's  Employee Tuition Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7681-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7681-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Internal Revenue Service's employee tuition assistance program has spent more than 60 percent of its funds  --  or $4.4 million in two years  --  on administrative costs, employing the equivalent of 30 full-time workers while turning away hundreds of employees for lack of funds, an inspector general audit has found.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Underreporting Fuels Tax Shortfall]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11382-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11382-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Americans fail to pay more than $300 billion in taxes they owe each year, with underreporting of income by small businesses and self-employed individuals the largest single component of this "tax gap," the Internal Revenue Service said yesterday.]]></description><author> Albert B. Crenshaw</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[T. Rex Find May Spur Biological Study]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63318-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63318-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Paleontologists have recovered what appear to be soft tissues from the thighbone of a 70 million-year-old <em>Tyrannosaurus rex</em>, potentially enabling dinosaur research to make a leap into studying the animals' physiology and perhaps even their cell biology.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next U.S. Trade Representative Named]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45653-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45653-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush Thursday named Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a free-trade advocate who is well-regarded by lawmakers in both parties, as his choice for U.S. trade representative.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probe of Abramoff and Nonprofits' Money Opens]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41850-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41850-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Senate Finance Committee investigates allegations that the lobbyist used nonprofit organizations to pay for improper activities, including overseas trips for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.]]></description><author> James V. Grimaldi</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social (Bzzzt!) Ow! (Bzzt!) Security!]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42334-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42334-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Department of Electrolocution: It's an enduring Washington cliche that Social Security is the "third rail" of American politics  --  as in, anyone who touches the program gets electrocuted, politically speaking. As he promotes his Social Security overhaul around the country,    President     Bush  is riding the line to death, saying, in effect, that by daring to tamper with this third rail, he's showing political courage.]]></description><author> Richard Lei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Stop Him Even If You've Heard This One]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32281-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32281-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With a wink and a nudge, President Bush is turning into a stand-up sort of guy. The leader of the free world often interjects jokes into otherwise sober discussions on Social Security, energy policy and foreign affairs.]]></description><author> Mark Leibovich</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S.-Canada Relations Seen Growing Chilly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5427-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5427-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  TORONTO, March 3 -- A U.S. Senate vote Thursday seeking to block the importing of Canadian cattle has added to a series of perceived snubs by Washington, causing alarm among Canadian officials and raising concerns of a chill in U.S.-Canada relations.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orvis's New Angle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A397-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A397-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Vermont-based company is extending its brand to luxury log homes, the better to shelter all that outdoor gear.]]></description><author> Annie Groer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tribal Grant Is Being Questioned]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61436-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61436-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A $3 million grant from a federal program intended for impoverished Indian tribal schools went to one of the richest tribes in the country under pressure from Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), who oversees the budget of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.]]></description><author> Susan Schmidt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild Horses Run Risk of Slaughter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58187-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58187-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After more than 30 years of roaming federal lands free of any threat of the slaughterhouse, wild mustangs can now be sold and butchered for meat if the Bureau of Land Management cannot sell them elsewhere.]]></description><author> Kimberly Edds</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Detail Guy With a Broad Perspective]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58189-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58189-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Eric M. Ueland finesses the rules as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's chief of staff.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marines Still Feel Insurgents' Pulse]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27309-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27309-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Officers in the battered Iraqi city of Fallujah say civilian cooperation is essential to keeping the peace.]]></description><author> Jackie Spinner</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indictment Gives Grace More Fiscal Uncertainty]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9576-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9576-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This week's criminal charges against W.R. Grace & Co. for its conduct in a Montana mining town could complicate the Columbia-based chemical maker's efforts to emerge from bankruptcy protection in strong financial shape.]]></description><author> Dina ElBoghdady</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity Turned to Poison in Mining Town]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6243-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6243-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Midwest town of fewer than 3,000 amounts to the biggest environmental disaster site in terms of human health that the Environmental Protection Agency has ever faced.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson  and Dina ElBoghdady</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Firm Accused of Asbestos Coverup]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5493-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5493-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors Monday charged W.R. Grace & Co. with exposing mine workers and residents in a small mountain community in Montana to deadly asbestos and covering up the danger.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson  and Dina ElBoghdady</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tax Panel Offers Ideas To Raise Revenue]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43013-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43013-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The government could raise an additional $400 billion or so over the next decade by tightening rules on tax shelters, simplifying the law and eliminating a range of tax breaks, many of which benefit homeowners and ordinary taxpayers, according to a congressional report.]]></description><author> Albert B. Crenshaw</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[W.R. Grace Losses Pile Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36766-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36766-2005Jan25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ W.R. Grace &#38; Co., the 150-year-old company that filed for bankruptcy protection after a surge in asbestos-related lawsuits, yesterday reported widening losses tied to its pending plan for reorganization.]]></description><author> Dina ElBoghdady</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Year After Legislation, Spam Still Widespread]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46037-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46037-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The nation's first law aimed at curtailing junk e-mail produced mixed results after a year on the books, inspiring some Internet service providers to take legal action against spammers but failing to stop the overall proliferation of the unwanted online messages.]]></description><author> David McGuire</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senators Vow to End Tax Break on Easements]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8794-2004Dec17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8794-2004Dec17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/mt</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 0:06:10 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The senators said their action came in response to a Washington Post series this week that examined the rapid growth in excessive income tax write-offs by property owners who promise not to change the facades on their historic properties.]]></description><author> Joe Stephens</author></item></channel></rss>