Copyright (c) 2011 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/jere_hester Recent documents in Jere Hester en-us Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:16:17 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/jere_hester/2 http://works.bepress.com/jere_hester/2 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:10:15 PST A slim majority of New Yorkers believes the City Council made the right call by voting to ban the use of metal bats in high school baseball games, an informal NYCity News Service survey found. Nearly 57 percent of the 53 people questioned by NYCity News Service reporters backed the Council's controversial move and parents supported the measure by a 2-to-1 margin.

]]> Jere Hester http://works.bepress.com/jere_hester/1 http://works.bepress.com/jere_hester/1 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:10:14 PST A court order won by the owner of the Oak Point rail yard has forced the city Department of Correction to postpone a hearing to review controversial plans for a new jail in Hunts Point. The announcement brought hoots and hollers of elation from a group of about 100 local residents who had marched to the site of the proposed jail to protest the city’s plans.

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