Catharine Richert
Catharine Richert is based in Rochester, Minn., and covers Southeast Minnesota for MPR News. She was previously on MPR's politics team, and has contributed to MPR's health care coverage. She lives in Rochester with her husband, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic, and their three children.
Recent Contributions
- For black mothers and babies, prejudice is a stubborn health risk
- New Rochester police program aims to help with substance use
- Mayo to announce new med-accelerator partnership with Boston Scientific
- Hagedorn says ‘no’ to more meetings with liberal group
- Got milk? Squeeze on dairy farmers eases
- Wet soil, wind are damaging trees in southern Minnesota
- Rochester, farmers hit hard by torrential rain in southeast Minnesota
- Rochester officials seek solutions to keep homeless out of skyways
- No charges against officers in shooting death of Albert Lea man
- Mayo Clinic may accelerate end of birth services in Albert Lea