ASSEMBLY VETERAN EVE TO RETIRE AFTER 35 YEARS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press

BUFFALO -- Deputy Speaker Arthur Eve, the Assembly's longest-serving member, said Saturday he will leave the Legislature at the end of his term to work ``from the outside'' on behalf of the poor.

Calling Albany frustrating at times, the Buffalo Democrat said he will form a foundation that will focus on empowering ``the last, the least and the lost'' of society to effect changes in government and business.

``I will continue to fight and do what is right for our community and for our state, but from the outside, rather than the inside,'' Eve said at a news conference on his 69th birthday. ``There is not …