Ampers

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Ampers is an association of 18 independent community radio stations in Minnesota.  Each station is locally managed and programmed by and for the local communities they serve.  Ampers is the largest network of community radio stations in the state of Minnesota and one of the largest of its kind in the United States. From Grand Marais, and Thief River Falls, to Mankato and Winona, and just about everywhere in between, we’ve got Minnesota covered. Our combined audience is about 250,000 devoted listeners.  Ampers has no affiliation with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and receives no financial support from MPR. 

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Short features documenting the impact of Minnesota's Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 23, 2014
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A Look at Legacy

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Apr 12, 2015
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Bearing Witness with Anthony Galloway and Georgia Fort is a production of Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice, a journalism project created and supported by Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities, in partnership with KMOJ Radio and The Minnesota Humanities Center.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Mar 27, 2021
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First-hand experiences and advice about the challenges and rewards associated with caring for loved ones in the last stages of life. Allina Health helped fund this project.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Dec 29, 2016
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We discuss race, identity, social justice and culture in a region grappling with demographic changes

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jan 14, 2021
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select Ampers programming related to COVID19

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Apr 20, 2020
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Sex Trafficking - Breaking Free Sex traffic. At KMOJ, we're not letting it hide. We are pleased to present two hours of programming about people in our community trying to end it. We are proud that last year's program on sex trafficking won a first place award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in the special projects category.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 05, 2019
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Moments in the musical history of Minnesota

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 14, 2017
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Minnesota Music Notes celebrating noteworthy artists, people and moments that shaped the history of Minnesota's Mainroom First Avenue

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Sep 26, 2019
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Each week Minnesota Native News looks at social, economic, cultural, health issues and more facing Minnesota’s Native American communities. By informing and educating all Minnesotans about events, activities, and issues in Minnesota’s Native American communities this program interweaves the Native American culture into the rest of the communities of the state.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jan 29, 2014

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This week on Minnesota Native News, questions of history and justice over a piece of Dakota land on the University of Minnesota campus.

Bought by KVSC, KMSU, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, WDSE and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 10
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The Minnesota Department of Health is encouraging Minnesotans with and without symptoms to get tested. Minnesota Native News team member Justus Sa...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In 1978, Ranee Ramaswamy, her husband and their three-year-old daughter moved from southern India to Minneapolis. Within a year, Ramaswamy would gi...

Bought by KVSC, WTIP, KSRQ, KRPR, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
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In 2009, Todd Bol, who’d grown up in Stillwater, was renovating his garage when he decided to turn the old door into a memorial for his mother Esth...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, WDSE, KSRQ, KVSC and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
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In 1939, Gregg Jakobson was born in St. Paul, where he was adopted by a police chief and his wife. By 1968, Jakobson was a California session arran...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSRQ, KVSC, KSRQ, KRPR and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13
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September 17, 1909, President William Howard Taft arrived in Winona, one stop in hundreds during the new president’s 56-day whistle-stop tour of Am...

Bought by KSRQ, KRPR, KKWE Niijii Radio, WDSE, KVSC and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
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In the late 19th century, with the Twin Cities rapidly expanding, it was becoming harder to reach distant points. St. Paul solved with the transpor...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 15
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There is now a digital option: Minnesotans with low incomes are now able to purchase food online using their SNAP benefits

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Over the past three weeks, more businesses and community facilities have reopened and thousands of people have been gathering at protests and event...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the Minnesota Native News Health Report, artists take a stand against Covid and more of your questions answered. Laurie Stern reports.

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and WTIP


  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 2