State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has put online a new website that allows you to track state spending by agency, or by contract.
Sound dull? In practical terms, you can dial up, say, the attorney general and find out that he has not one, but two contracts with one Alexander von Gernet, who seems to have earned more than $284,000 since 2002 serving as an "ethnohistorian" for the state in the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe vs. NYState litigation.
Or, you can find out that the Assembly paid $1.28 million to Rohlfs Stained & Leaded Glass Studio Inc. to restore the stained glass windows in the Assembly Chamber. For example.
The website, called Open Book, is here.