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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
- In Ely, an experiment to improve political conversations has come with ups and downs
- ‘This is who Robynne is’: A father’s struggle to accept his daughter is gay
- Political conversations at work may seem risky, but stifling them is risky, too
- ‘Big hole in my heart’: How two siblings mended a rift after one came out
- Talking Sense: Skills for disagreeing respectfully across political divides
- In New York Mills, the Great American Think-Off finalists debate to understand, not to win
- Should families and schools restrict smartphones?
- Laugh it out: Can humor ease tension in polarizing times?
- Like it’s 1865: The Rochester Roosters are bringing back vintage ‘base ball’
- Rochester City Council member expelled from meeting