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WashingtonPost.com: WASHINGTON — Mayor Anthony A. Williams's proposed financing package for a $440-million baseball park in Southeast Washington includes a bond issue, a sales tax on in-stadium purchases and a new tax on city businesses that take in $3 million or more a year.

The proposal is controversial to those who know the city's human needs firsthand: Leaders of the faith community. Most are happy to see baseball coming to the nation's capital. But they don't want resources diverted from the city's other responsibilities, such as educating its young, caring for its sick and uplifting its needy.

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