Catharine Richert
Senior Reporter at Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul, MN)
Correspondent at Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul, MN)
Covering SE MN for @mprnews by way of DC by way of NC. Politics reporter, steel drum player in a former life. Tips and rants welcome.
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2 weeks ago |
mprnews.org | Catharine Richert
If the residents of Rochester tried singing happy birthday to its downtown glow-up, they might get drowned out by the sounds of jackhammers and cement trucks. And instead of birthday candles, the city is decorated with orange construction cones —hundreds upon hundreds of them. Rochester is celebrating a milestone this month. The city’s Destination Medical Center is ten years old. It’s a massive economic development effort to transform the area around the home of Mayo Clinic.
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3 weeks ago |
mankatofreepress.com | Dan Kraker |David Schaper |Catharine Richert
Some owners of homes and cabins in areas torched by this week’s massive wildfires in northeastern Minnesota got their first look Friday at the devastation and had a chance to see if their structures were still standing or if they had burned to the ground.
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3 weeks ago |
mprnews.org | Dan Kraker |David Schaper |Catharine Richert
Some owners of homes and cabins in areas torched by this week’s massive wildfires in northeastern Minnesota got their first look Friday at the devastation and had a chance to see if their structure were still standing or if they had burned to the ground.
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3 weeks ago |
mprnews.org | Catharine Richert |Curtis Gilbert
The University of Minnesota is shutting down a multi-million dollar research center that has been roiled by plagiarism allegations. Public health school dean Melinda Pettigrew announced Thursday that the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity will close on May 30.
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3 weeks ago |
mprnews.org | Catharine Richert
As she slipped on her bowling shoes, Mena Feleke remembered when she realized her liberal college campus was an intellectual bubble. “My freshman year, a good friend of mine actually transferred because he didn’t feel like he was able to express his opinions and be able to disagree with the people on campus,” she said. Feleke is a senior at Macalester College. Most students there are liberal, and so is she. Feleke said there’s not a lot of room for political disagreement as a result.
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