Politics on the Hudson

   The state entered into 2,421 new contracts totaling about $613 million last month, according to state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. Details are posted on the agency’s Open Book New York Web site.

   The largest was $30.3 million contract between the Department of Transportation and ECCO III Enterprises Inc. for a construction project in Rockland County.

   Others were a $22.2 million grant between the Health Department and Bellevue Women’s Medical Center Inc.; $17.9 million between the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse and Medquist Transcriptions Ltd.; and $17.2 million between the Department of Transportation and the Wellsbach Electric Corp. for an intelligent transportation system and lighting along the Wantagh State Parkway on Long Island.