Mary Lou Cooper
ReporterMary Lou Cooper reports on consumer issues for KSFR as well as on politics and elder affairs. She has worked for the U.S. Congress as well as for the Nevada and Tennessee legislatures, and remains a political junkie. She worked many years for an association of Western state legislatures and was a contributor to “Capitol Ideas,” a national magazine about state government. In 2016 Cooper received a public service award from the New Mexico Broadcasting Association for her KSFR story on Internet romance scams. She has received journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and from the National Federation of Press Women. She grew up in Oak Ridge, TN and received her BA from Emory University in Atlanta and her MA from the University of Texas Austin. She also holds fiction and screenwriting certificates from the University of Washington.
email: news@ksfr.org
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Beware scammers who solicit teenage boys in order to blackmail them
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Tips from IRS Criminal Investigation about tax scams
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Consumer tips on holiday shopping scams
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Antisemitism/Islamophobia on UNM campus?
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Interview with Los Alamos historian about the lab's new documentary on Robert Oppenheimer
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St. John's United Methodist Church in Santa Fe to sell 40,000 lbs. of pumpkins this October
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NM rolls out new vaccine for the COVID XBB variants
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FDA/CDC okay new COVID XBB shot for fall of 2023