Today members of the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association (PBA) joined Marc Alessi at his campaign headquarters in Miller Place to show their support of his candidacy for state Assembly. Those in attendance include: Suffolk Detectives Association President Bill Plant, 1st Vice President Jim Hughes, Suffolk PBA President Jeff Frayler, Suffolk SOA President Gerry Gilmore, Tom Tatarian from the Suffolk Police Conference, and the President of the Suffolk DA Investigations PBA John Keary. Read More...

Assemblyman Marc Alessi has signed onto gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Cuomo’s Pledge for a New NY. The pledge calls on New Yorkers to work together in a spirit of bipartisanship during this election cycle and beyond, to reclaim our title as the Empire State.
Read More...

Assembly members Alessi and Thiele stood together before a gathering of manufactured home owners this morning to support the owners of manufactured homes, most of which are on a fixed income.
Read More...

Assemblyman Marc Alessi traveled to Queens today to speak with Carmine Gallo, the FAA’s Regional Administrator for the Eastern Region. They discussed how to make Alessi’s new website, www.quietskiesLI.com, more comprehensive and helpful in tracking down helicopter pilots who break the rules. Read More...

Today Assemblyman Marc Alessi, Chair of the Assembly’s Subcommittee on the Emerging Workforce, released his report aimed at creating jobs here on Long Island and throughout New York State. The report comes from a yearlong effort to research New York’s assets and bring together industry leaders through roundtable discussions and hearings, to figure out what New York could do to help make the state a leader in tech transfer. Read More...

Last year, as Chair of the Subcommittee on the Emerging Workforce, I initiated a series of fact-finding events across the State to identify emerging industries that present opportunities for well-paying jobs for our citizens and learn how government, industry, labor, education, and training entities are working together to meet the needs of these industries. At each of these events, my colleagues and I heard from educators at the secondary, community college and university levels; local workforce investment boards; training providers; economic development officials; and private industry. Although regional differences clearly existed, several familiar and overlapping themes emerged. We received many good suggestions for how to improve our State’s economy, and several of these ideas were turned into legislation. Read More...

Assemblyman Marc Alessi is urging Governor Paterson to continue funding the Solar Pioneer and Solar Entrepreneur Program through the end of the year. The program offers incentives to homeowners, businesses and municipalities to transition to clean, green and renewable energy sources. Read More...

Senator Brian X. Foley (D – Blue Point), Assemblyman Marc Alessi (D, I – Shoreham) and Legislator Kate Browning (WFP – Shirley) blasted Governor Paterson’s veto of important legislation that would have further protected our communities from sex offenders. Read More...

Marc Alessi announced he has been officially endorsed by the New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV). Alessi has been working in the Assembly to promote alternative energies – such as biofuels – to make New York’s homes, businesses and municipalities more energy efficient. Read More...

Marc Alessi and NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced the beginning of a forensic audit of overtime spending at the MTA. It comes on the heels of another audit of the MTA that raised concerns about increased overtime costs from 2005-2009. Read More...