Earmarks: Arizona

Here are the earmarks identified for Arizona, which total $7,200,000. Check out the earmarks for your state and then call your congressman and ask if he or she sponsored any of your state's earmarks. If the answer is yes, ask why the congressman's name isn't on the earmark. If you recognize the institution designated to receive the earmarked tax dollars, call them and ask them what they intend to do with your money.

Then email us at info@examiner.com with the subject line "Earmarks" and tell us what you found out.

Amount City Description
$1,000,000 Tucson University Medical Center for facilities and equipment
$750,000 Phoenix Translational Genomics Research Institute for facilities and equipment
$500,000 Tucson Pima Community Access Program for a Regional Health Information Organization
$500,000 Scottsdale Scottsdale Healthcare for an electronic medical records system
$500,000 Tucson TMC Health Care for facilities and equipment
$500,000 Tucson University of Arizona College of Nursing for facilities and equipment for the Patient Care Learning Center
$400,000 Glendale Midwestern University for a rural postgraduate educational program at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center
$350,000 Tuba City Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation for facilities and equipment
$300,000 Coolidge Central Arizona College for a bilingual nurse education program, including purchase of equipment
$300,000 Phoenix Maricopa County Community College for the Bilingual Nursing Program at Gateway Community College
$250,000 Graham County Schools, for professional development
$250,000 Tempe Arizona State University Institute of Civil Rights, for dropout prevention and other education projects
$250,000 Apache County Schools, Apache County, for teacher training
$200,000 Mesa Marc Center for job training for adults with disabilities
$175,000 Mesa Mesa Community College for the Enfermeras En Escalera program
$150,000 Phoenix St. Joseph's Hospital for facilities and equipment for its mobile maternity outreach program
$150,000 Avondale Estrella Mountain Community College for its science and math pathways initiative, which may include student scholarships
$150,000 Sells Tohono O'Odham Community College for equipment and technology for its multi-purpose learning center, laboratory and library complex
$125,000 Mesa Mesa Community College for nursing recertification curriculum
$100,000 Scottsdale Arizona Dental Foundation to provide dental services to low-income residents of Arizona
$100,000 Greenlee County Schools, for computer equipment
$100,000 Prescott Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for technology upgrades
$50,000 Whiteriver Women's Choice Pregnancy Clinic and Hope Maternity House of Show Low, AZ, for facilities and equipment for the Hope House Maternity Home
$50,000 Prescott Prescott Hospice House for facilities and equipment

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