Ted Alcorn
@tedalcorn.bsky.social
Reporting on health + justice in NYTimes, NM in Depth, more • Teaching @ Columbia & NYU Wagner • Bi-Nuevo: New Mexican in NYC
Albuquerque police make front-page news with successful hoof-chase.
Full footage: www.facebook.com/reel/1590537...
Full footage: www.facebook.com/reel/1590537...
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Albuquerque police make front-page news with successful hoof-chase.
Full footage: www.facebook.com/reel/1590537...
Full footage: www.facebook.com/reel/1590537...
Gun violence rate varies a lot between cities; non-gun violence rate less so. What we think of as a "safer" city is less gun violence where de facto, non-gun homicides make up a larger share. Chart/data from vintage @everytown.bsky.social report: centerforimprovinginvestigations.org/wp-content/u...
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Gun violence rate varies a lot between cities; non-gun violence rate less so. What we think of as a "safer" city is less gun violence where de facto, non-gun homicides make up a larger share. Chart/data from vintage @everytown.bsky.social report: centerforimprovinginvestigations.org/wp-content/u...
DOJ altered the Biden admin's signature gun violence prevention grant program for "Community Based" interventions to make it inaccessible to...communities.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
DOJ altered the Biden admin's signature gun violence prevention grant program for "Community Based" interventions to make it inaccessible to...communities.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
google reviews for a tailor in my neighborhood are something else
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
google reviews for a tailor in my neighborhood are something else
In Albuquerque, where @mayorkeller.bsky.social is cruising towards re-election, his 1st TV ad gives top-billing to his non-police emergency response dept, what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is promising for NYC. Just to say, it's possible to run on community safety. www.facebook.com/reel/1486960...
October 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In Albuquerque, where @mayorkeller.bsky.social is cruising towards re-election, his 1st TV ad gives top-billing to his non-police emergency response dept, what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is promising for NYC. Just to say, it's possible to run on community safety. www.facebook.com/reel/1486960...
Today’s insane stat about Chinese renewable energy installation: “Every three weeks.” 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
October 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today’s insane stat about Chinese renewable energy installation: “Every three weeks.” 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
Interesting to see @gabbygiffords.bsky.social & former Sen. Jeff Flake co-author this. In 2013 he broke a promise to her to support a background check bill, essentially dooming the once-in-a-generation effort. The loss galvanized her to start @giffords.org. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Interesting to see @gabbygiffords.bsky.social & former Sen. Jeff Flake co-author this. In 2013 he broke a promise to her to support a background check bill, essentially dooming the once-in-a-generation effort. The loss galvanized her to start @giffords.org. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
A few big outlets scooping some up, but no evidence many are staying in journalism. Bad for democracy.
July 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A few big outlets scooping some up, but no evidence many are staying in journalism. Bad for democracy.
In my analysis, since 2018, the event's cost per attendee has been growing faster than the average revenue per attendee. Somewhere in there the lines crossed, meaning the org now loses money for each additional attendee. They will not balance their books w/out revenue/donations from somewhere else.
July 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
In my analysis, since 2018, the event's cost per attendee has been growing faster than the average revenue per attendee. Somewhere in there the lines crossed, meaning the org now loses money for each additional attendee. They will not balance their books w/out revenue/donations from somewhere else.
Staking his secretaryship on whether WH pursues this plan. We’ll see who prevails.
April 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Staking his secretaryship on whether WH pursues this plan. We’ll see who prevails.
Africa is the youngest and fastest-growing continent, set to exceed 2.5 billion people by 2050. The future of the globe resides there, quite literally. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
April 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Africa is the youngest and fastest-growing continent, set to exceed 2.5 billion people by 2050. The future of the globe resides there, quite literally. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
April 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Just published a wrap up on NM's legislative session where, in the most alcohol-ravaged state in the country, industry yet again defeated an effort to meaningfully raise alcohol taxes. @nmindepth.bsky.social
See Exhibit A of whether conflicts of interest matter:
nmindepth.com/2025/after-h...
See Exhibit A of whether conflicts of interest matter:
nmindepth.com/2025/after-h...
March 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Just published a wrap up on NM's legislative session where, in the most alcohol-ravaged state in the country, industry yet again defeated an effort to meaningfully raise alcohol taxes. @nmindepth.bsky.social
See Exhibit A of whether conflicts of interest matter:
nmindepth.com/2025/after-h...
See Exhibit A of whether conflicts of interest matter:
nmindepth.com/2025/after-h...
In 2023 for The Marshall Project I gathered data from the 20 largest PDs on how many non fatal shootings they cleared. Chicago was dead last. It is promising they are now learning from the top city, Denver. www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/30/n...
March 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In 2023 for The Marshall Project I gathered data from the 20 largest PDs on how many non fatal shootings they cleared. Chicago was dead last. It is promising they are now learning from the top city, Denver. www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/30/n...
There is lots to celebrate in declining shootings in NYC but lost in remarks from Mayor Adams & PC Tisch is that improvements are bottoming out, at a level 20% higher than the prior low. The entire difference is in the Bronx, which had 70% more shootings last year than in 2019. My analysis:
March 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
There is lots to celebrate in declining shootings in NYC but lost in remarks from Mayor Adams & PC Tisch is that improvements are bottoming out, at a level 20% higher than the prior low. The entire difference is in the Bronx, which had 70% more shootings last year than in 2019. My analysis:
As we experience a stark test of the political support for American development assistance, @kff.org comes through with a helpful survey. This table is the meat: GOP voters dismiss concerns about harm, have exaggerated belief cuts will relieve budget deficit. www.kff.org/global-healt...
March 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As we experience a stark test of the political support for American development assistance, @kff.org comes through with a helpful survey. This table is the meat: GOP voters dismiss concerns about harm, have exaggerated belief cuts will relieve budget deficit. www.kff.org/global-healt...
Gutting USAID will lead to the deaths of more children than the atomic bombings of Japan, writes @maanyp.bsky.social, former head USAID speechwriter and a friend.
The strongest case for US foreign assistance? "It's the right thing to do."
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The strongest case for US foreign assistance? "It's the right thing to do."
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Gutting USAID will lead to the deaths of more children than the atomic bombings of Japan, writes @maanyp.bsky.social, former head USAID speechwriter and a friend.
The strongest case for US foreign assistance? "It's the right thing to do."
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The strongest case for US foreign assistance? "It's the right thing to do."
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
In 2010 when I lived in Beijing, a departing friend gifted me her e-bike. On the city's over-wide avenues, emptied out by late night, I fell in love with the mode of transport. Upon returning to NYC the next year and missing it badly, I briefly thought to myself: there's a business idea here.
January 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
In 2010 when I lived in Beijing, a departing friend gifted me her e-bike. On the city's over-wide avenues, emptied out by late night, I fell in love with the mode of transport. Upon returning to NYC the next year and missing it badly, I briefly thought to myself: there's a business idea here.
I happen to reporting a story for @nmindepth.bsky.social about the potential benefits of early diagnosis of schizophrenia—and this timely story by @ellenbarry.bsky.social blew me away. Particularly when she stepped through the fourth wall for her subject: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/h...
December 30, 2024 at 7:52 PM
I happen to reporting a story for @nmindepth.bsky.social about the potential benefits of early diagnosis of schizophrenia—and this timely story by @ellenbarry.bsky.social blew me away. Particularly when she stepped through the fourth wall for her subject: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/h...
A @nationalacademies.org report meant to inform revised alcohol dietary guidelines is out, and its findings are milquetoast at best: moderate drinking is *associated* with certain cancers but also with lower all-cause mortality, as known for years. www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/rev...
December 18, 2024 at 1:43 PM
A @nationalacademies.org report meant to inform revised alcohol dietary guidelines is out, and its findings are milquetoast at best: moderate drinking is *associated* with certain cancers but also with lower all-cause mortality, as known for years. www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/rev...
The disconnect Sarah Wildman portrays is not confined to the death of a child, tho there it is likely at its most searing. When my father-in-law was dying of cancer, doctors & family struggled to communicate what they knew & what they needed. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...
November 25, 2024 at 11:22 PM
The disconnect Sarah Wildman portrays is not confined to the death of a child, tho there it is likely at its most searing. When my father-in-law was dying of cancer, doctors & family struggled to communicate what they knew & what they needed. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...