Topic: David Valesky

NY Senate bloc pushes for small business laws

While New York devotes much of its effort and billions of dollars in tax breaks to attract global corporations, an influential bloc of state ...

Building, Cautiously, Toward a More Open Senate

ALBANYThe State Senate are now debating two resolutions reforming the chamber rules and creating a commission to look at doing more along those lines. State Senators David Valesky and John Bonacic, a Republican and a Democrat, will serve as co-chairs. There will ...

Smith Eyes Upstaters for Promotion

State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith is putting some upstate members of his conference in high positions in the State Senate leadership.He will name State Senator David Valesky of Syracuse as vice president pro tempore (the post comes with a $34 ...