Catharine Richert
Correspondent, Rochester
crichert@mpr.org
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
- BBC journalist in Nigeria shares how she navigates election disinformation
- Rochester Public Schools move to formalize procedure for helping transgender kids
- As Olmsted County shifts left, political observers see battle brewing over control of a complicated electorate
- As Goodhue County shifts further right, compromise is harder to find
- Rochester police investigating racial slur on bridge
- St. Olaf election project drives turnout, primes students for more productive political conversations
- Talking Sense: The roots of political polarization
- What Burnsville tells us about domestic violence and the legal system in Minnesota
- ‘Always truth in their story’: How one author talks across political divides
- Prairie Island tribe set to open cannabis dispensary this summer near Red Wing