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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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Lina Knox met a sassy sergeant on a deployment in Iraq. Years later, she connected with her on Facebook. And now that sassy sergeant is her wife. H...

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Cindy Strange had a girlfriend in the military. But she didn’t tell anyone. It was the era of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. She didn’t want to get kicked...

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Stephen Rocheford, an Army officer, became a nuclear cryptologist. His job was to sit in a room with communications equipment and seven safes. Here...

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Ron Brodigan’s spent his first night at sea on the weather deck. Ron, a new member of the Navy, was smoking with a Marine when a wave swept them up...

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Richard Ekcholm had a dad in World War II. He also had friends in the military. So he volunteered for the Navy in 1974. Here’s Abdi Mohamed.

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Louis Hubbell volunteered to go into the Air Force. Right out of tech school, he got a sweet assignment to Misawa, Japan. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

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At Bilad airfield in Iraq, Lina Knox never expected to fall in love. She didn’t—not yet anyway—but she couldn’t help noticing that sergeant with th...

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Why did John Hill join the Marines? He’d dropped out of school and had an usher job. He wanted something better. So he flew off to boot camp in Sep...

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Fran White, a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, was once told her military service didn’t count. She’d never seen combat. B...

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Davalance DePoe, a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, always wanted to jump from an airplane. He got his chance in infantry ...

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