D.C. Mayor Stakes Career on Baseball Deal
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Mayor Anthony A. Williams said Sunday his political career may depend on whether his plan to bring major league baseball to the capital wins city council approval in the next two weeks.
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Advocates for preserving a major league baseball team in Washington, DC, said Friday that their strategy involves trying to convince DC Council chairwoman Linda W. Cropp that the city is committed to attracting private stadium financing on its own without
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony  Williams will try to get financing for a Major League Baseball  stadium back on the city council agenda next week after the  council added a deal-breaking provision to the original bill,  the mayor's spokesman said on Thursday.
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Tuesday night's D.C. Council vote on baseball left some business leaders worried that the events will hurt the District's credibility with developers and financiers.
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All that stands in the way of the Washington Nationals now is the Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies. Last night, District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams came up with a private
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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has proposed using public funds to build a professional soccer stadium in Southeast Washington that would cost as much as $190 million, a drastic departure from his stance against public financing of the Nationals baseball stadium.
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Beaming like a kid who'd just met his favorite sports hero, Mayor Anthony A. Williams signed legislation Wednesday to bring major-league baseball back to the nation's capital.
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The deal to move the Expos to Washington, DC, is, as Mayor Anthony Williams puts it, &quot;in jeopardy.&quot; If it falls apart, baseball will not resume talks with other cities until after Dec. 31, and it&#39;s unclear where the Expos would play this season.
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Washington, DC, City Council is due to debate stadium funding again today in an attempt to keep Major League Baseballâs return to the city from being stillborn.
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Mayor Anthony A. Williams backs the idea of considering private investors to reduce the city's cost of building a ballpark for the Expos.
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The city&#39;s top two political leaders cleared the way tonight for Major League Baseball in the nation&#39;s capital, after daylong negotiations to guarantee the construction
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For the first time since he enticed the Montreal Expos to Washington, DC, with promises of a new stadium, mayor Anthony A. Williams went out among the local folks Tuesday, and he found that his largesse is not particularly appreciated.
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Advocates and opponents of a publicly funded baseball stadium in D.C. say there are big inequities in the details of the business tax that Mayor Williams has proposed.
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A new stadium for Major League Baseball in Washington DC will cost around $90 million more than the mayor expects, the city&#39;s independent chief financial officer told the City Council Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - It was more pep rally than news conference, with the mayor and city officials wearing red Washington Senators caps, the ones with the curly "W" on the front.   "After 30 years of waiting and waiting and waiting," said Mayor Anthony Williams, adding dramatic pauses for emphasis, "and lots of hard work and more than a few prayers, there will be baseball in Washington in 2005!"   Baseball returned to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years Wednesday, with an announcement from Major League Baseball that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington next season...
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony  Williams on Wednesday signed a nearly $1 billion stadium  funding package, clearing the way for the city to begin work on  a ballpark for a Major League Baseball team.
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony  Williams on Wednesday said the deal to bring Major League  Baseball back to the U.S. capital was close to dead after the  city council changed the plan to require private financing.