Meet 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
- Ready to Depolarize? Try ‘Walk a Mile in My News’
- Talking Sense: Navigating relationships across political divides
- How a liberal and a conservative became friends, despite being ’wrong about everything’
- How a Guatemalan immigrant and a 4th-generation farmer see immigration issues in Worthington
- It’s the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. Except maybe in farm country
- Republicans are talking about Walz’s policing record. Why do voters in low-crime communities care?
- If these Walz could talk: Couple who bought VP candidate’s Mankato home reminisce
- Conservative talk radio show host Al Travis is trying to depolarize the airwaves
- If roughly 40 percent of Americans avoid the news, what does that mean for political engagement?
- In Minnesota’s deep red 7th District, Otter Tail County GOP feuds over pretty much everything