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Earmarks: Colorado
Here are the earmarks identified for Colorado, which total $4,400,000. 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 |
| $500,000 | Greeley | University of Northern Colorado for facilities and equipment for the National Center for Nursing Education |
| $425,000 | Grand Junction | St. Mary's Hospital Foundation for facilities and equipment for the Saccomanno Education Center |
| $350,000 | Pueblo | St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center for facilities and equipment |
| $300,000 | Louisville | Avista Adventist Hospital for an electronic medical record system |
| $300,000 | Denver | Children's Hospital, for an electronic medical records system |
| $300,000 | Fort Collins | Colorado State University, for a combined PET and CT scanner |
| $250,000 | Greeley | University of Northern Colorado for the Maple Tree Project at the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute |
| $250,000 | Lafayette | Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center Foundation, for an electronic medical record system |
| $200,000 | Denver | Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado, for a naturally occurring retirement communities demonstration project |
| $200,000 | Aurora | University of Colorado for facilities and equipment for the Center for Women's Health Research |
| $200,000 | Sterling | Regional Responses Network for facilities ad equipment for the alcohol and substance abuse detox/residential treatment facility |
| $150,000 | Greeley | University of Northern Colorado for the Basic Science Project at the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute |
| $150,000 | Alamosa | Valley-Wide Health Systems for facilities and equipment for a primary care and dental facility in Durango |
| $150,000 | Greeley | Aims Community College for equipment for career training in health record system |
| $150,000 | Jefferson County | Reengineering of child abuse prevention infrastructure |
| $150,000 | Denver | Housing assistance, mentoring, and other services for homeless families and seniors |
| $100,000 | Denver | National Association of Street Schools Career Pathways Program for tools and training designed to create positive life change for at-risk youth |
| $100,000 | Denver | Hospice of Metro Denver, for the Life Quality Institute |
| $100,000 | Denver | Denver Rescue Mission for the Literacy and Education Center |
| $75,000 | San Luis | Costilla County, for facilities and equipment for a county health services facility |
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