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Earmarks: Minnesota
Here are the earmarks identified for Minnesota, which total $7,155,000. 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 |
| $600,000 | Duluth | College of St. Scholastica, for a rural health information technology project |
| $525,000 | Minneapolis | Cedar Riverside People's Center, for facilities and equipment and conversion to an electronic medical records system |
| $500,000 | Austin | Gerard Treatment Programs, for program for abused and neglected children with severe emotional or behavioral problems. |
| $400,000 | Eagan | International Species Information System for the ZIMS project |
| $400,000 | Minnetonka | Jewish Family & Children's Services of Minneapolis, for a naturally occurring retirement communities demonstration project |
| $400,000 | St. Cloud | St. Cloud State University for the Science Initiative of Central Minnesota for curriculum development |
| $375,000 | St. Paul | City of St. Paul, for after-school and out-of-school youth academic and enrichment programs |
| $350,000 | Bemidji | Bemidji State University for an engineering technology center |
| $350,000 | Bemidji | Bemidji State University for the development of a baccalaureate nursing program |
| $300,000 | West St. Paul | Public Health Department of Dakota County, for the Dakota County Healthy Families program |
| $250,000 | Duluth | Lutheran Social Services, for services to runaway, homeless, and other at-risk you and their families |
| $250,000 | Edina | Southdale Hospital for equipment |
| $250,000 | Minneapolis | Augsburg College for the StepUp program to assist students in recovery from chemical dependency |
| $250,000 | Virginia | Family to Family community-based mentoring program to assist low-income families at Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency |
| $230,000 | Minneapolis | Dual diagnosis outpatient treatment program at the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center |
| $225,000 | St. Paul | University of St. Thomas for the Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services in Minneapolis |
| $200,000 | Burnsville | Ridges Hospital for an ambulatory electronic medical records system |
| $175,000 | Minneapolis | Sustainable Resources Center for a lead poisoning screening and education program |
| $150,000 | St. Paul | Open Cities Health Center for facilities and equipment |
| $150,000 | Hastings | All Children Excel demonstration project at the Community Corrections Department, Dakota County |
| $150,000 | Inver Grove Heights | Chemical dependency treatment services at the Sheriffs Youth Program |
| $150,000 | Brainerd | Brainerd Public Schools District (Independent School District 181), for its Teacher Support System |
| $150,000 | St. Paul | Advocating Change Together for a disability rights training initiative |
| $150,000 | Perham | History Museum of East Otter Tail County for its In Their Own Words exhibit |
| $100,000 | Coon Rapids | Anoka-Ramsey Community College for the implementation of a biomedical device manufacturing curriculum |
| $75,000 | West St. Paul | West Side Community Health Services for health information technology |
| $50,000 | Minneapolis | Person to Person, for its Hungry Lil' Readers Club Family Literacy Program |
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