Stewart-Cousins pledges 'intelligence and integrity'

ALBANY — Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is presiding over what some observers are calling the most productive Senate session on record, as her 39-member Democratic conference rapidly rolls through legislation that had stalled for years when Republicans controlled the chamber.But Stewart-Cousins said she had noticed signs of change in Albany long before last year's "blue wave" election enabled Democrats to claim eight seats in the historically GOP state Senate, granting Democ