Mary Lou Cooper
Features 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.
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Two paintings stolen from the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos in 1985 are tracked by the FBI and returned in 2025.
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American Automobile Association offers tips for road trippers and flyers over Memorial Day 2025
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Vaccines can prevent measles. There is no cure.
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University of New Mexico expert Dr. Osman Dokmeci offers allergy tips.
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Local SF nursery owner Lynn Payne offers spring garden tips, 2025
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Discussion of 2025 Santa Fe home sales and prices
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rules of the road for baking at high altitudes
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Brookings expert discusses the gender gap in election 2024.