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Christopher Fox Graham

Goldwater Institute lawyer responds to Sedona Mayor Scott Jablow’s proposed OHV ban

Adam Shelton, the staff attorney of the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute has sent a letter to Sedona Mayor Scott Jablow, City Manager Karen Osburn and City Attorney Kurt Christianson warning that the mayor's proposed...

Remembering 104-year-old hole-in-one hero H.B. ‘Boots’ Claunts

March 21, 1919 — May 13, 2023 Hubert Bluford “Boots” Claunts, who was well known to our readers for his numerous holes-in-one at Canyon Mesa County Club and his birthdays as he neared, then surpassed, the century mark, has died...

Motherhood is love made tangible in the flesh

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 14, the day when we celebrate our mothers, grandmothers, wives and daughters with brunches or breakfasts, flowers or just a phone call for those of us who live too far away to travel. The...

Sedona politics demands an ordinance be impossible

So while Sedona residents are most concerned about a lack of affordable housing, severe traffic congestion from an Arizona Department of Transportation project that hampers traffic along State Route 179 in the middle of the day, diminishing tax revenue...

Be sure to pick up a copy of our Lifestyles of Sedona magazine in the April 28 newspaper

In today’s April 28 edition of the Sedona Red Rock News, you will see copies of our spring Lifestyles of Sedona magazine. This biannual magazine highlights people, institutions and programs in Sedona and the immediate area in a magazine-style...

Gregory Steven Rowley

Aug. 15, 1969 — April 7, 2023Gregory Steven Rowley, 53, of Nephi, Utah, died April 7 in Sedona.A physical therapist, he coached youth sports, served on the Nephi City Council for 12 years and enjoyed the outdoors, camping, fishing,...

What’s under the bridge? $3.46 million of our tax dollars

The Sedona City Council voted unanimously last week to spend $3.46 million on a new sidewalk to connect Tlaquepaque to Tlaquepaque North and the Center for the New Age underneath State Route 179. The sidewalk is supposed to encourage tourists...

Do your part to save the planet on Earth Day

Saturday, April 22, is Earth Day, a holiday when Americans and humans all over the planet supposed to look at our environmental conditions and think about what we can do better for ourselves, our children and our descendants. While there...

Sedona City Council still doesn’t get why it was dumped by the chamber

With the Sedona Chamber of Commerce’s April 5 decision to not seek a new contract with the Sedona City Council for Fiscal Year 2023-24, council transformed its April 12 meeting — which was originally scheduled to discuss the details...

Sedona City Council must repeal unused 0.5% bed tax it has no plans to spend on marketing

Since the Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau announced its plans to separate from the Sedona City Council when its contract expires at the end of the fiscal year in June, we haven’t heard that much from Sedona’s...

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, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
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