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Yavapai Community College board member McCasland doubles down on unconstitutional policy suppressing speech

Deb McCasland, the Yavapai Community College District 2 representative, recently sent a letter to college staff warning them to ignore criticism of college leadership and attempting to defend the board’s recent unconstitutional policy that endeavors to limit their free...

James Arthur Ray, a self-proclaimed ‘guru’ convicted for the ‘sweat lodge’ deaths of 3 people in 2009, has died

James Arthur Ray, 67, a self-styled self-help “guru” whose sweat lodge retreat event led to the death of three people in October 2009 at the Angel Valley Retreat Center five miles southwest of Sedona, died on Jan. 3, according...

Honoring Sedona veteran and prolific letter writer David A. Isquith

Approaching my 12th year as managing editor of the Sedona Red Rock News, I’ve received letters from hundreds of residents around the Verde Valley, but few were as consistent and prolific as Sedona resident David Aba Isquith, who had...

Celebration of life for ceramacist Dennis Ott to be held Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Sedona Performing Arts Center

Dennis Alan Ott, 81, of Sedona, Arizona, passed away peacefully on Oct. 12, 2024, at home, surrounded by close friends and his loving wife, Pat. Born in Seattle, Wash., on March 23, 1943, Dennis grew up in Southern California before...

Remembering the Pearl Harbor attack 83 years ago on Dec. 7, 1941

The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked United States military installations in the Territory of Hawaiʻi beginning at 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941. Known as Operation Z during planning, the Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as...

Sedona police tase and arrest man who attempted home break-in, stole police car and led officers on foot chase

Sedona Police Department officers responded at 8:51 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, regarding a suspicious person, later identified as Nathan Andrew Nichols, a 28-year-old transient, who threw a chair into the window of a residence in the 200 block...

City Council to discuss annexing 3,422 acres into Sedona city limits at Dec. 10 meeting

Sedona City Council will discuss and consider possible action regarding approval of filing an annexation petition with the Yavapai County Recorder to annex approximately 3,422 acres of land, including the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant and neighboring city-owned property, known...

Fired Deputy Police Chief Ryan Kwitkin sues city of Sedona and four staffers

Phoenix attorney Troy P. Foster has filed a lawsuit on behalf of former Sedona Deputy Police Chief Ryan Kwitkin against the city of Sedona, former Sedona City Manager Karen Osburn and current Sedona City Manager Anette Spickard, Sedona Police...

Yavapai Community College tries to silence free speech of its faculty and Governing Board members

Imagine that you and a friend co-own a struggling business with three other people and all of you own a 20% share. The business faces issues with marketing, connecting with customers, selling merchandise and high overhead due to overpaid managers....

Shop locally when buying holiday gifts this season

As we begin cooking our Thanksgiving meals, Black Friday will soon be here, followed by the start of the holiday shopping season. In years past, we would hear stories from around the country of neighbors turning into bargain warriors, elbowing...

About Me

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."
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