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Christopher Fox Graham

Sedona City Council’s silence on proposed water rate hike shows who really matters

The Sedona City Council opted to take no action to oppose or make a statement about Arizona’s Water Company’s proposed rate increase, which will increase water costs for Sedona residents by at least 36%, according to the utility’s officials. The...

City survey offered leading questions on future plans for Sedona Cultural Park

The city of Sedona closed its Sedona Cultural Park survey on Sunday, Jan. 19. The city is referring to the area as the Western Gateway, although several residents contacted us to ask if they had the correct survey about...

Wildfire is constant but manageable threat to our region

Sedona and Verde Valley residents have watched with concern the Eaton and Palisades wildfires in the Los Angeles area of California, which have burned thousands of homes to the ground and displaced tens of thousands of people. While...

Crater Sinks Prescribed Burn targets 1,700 acres 13 miles north of Sedona

The Arizona State Department of Forestry and Fire Management and Coconino National Forest fire managers have taken advantage of current weather conditions and begin work on a highly visible prescribed burn project southwest of Flagstaff, starting Wednesday, Jan. 22. The...

The eeriness of that post-election silence

Most governing bodies in the state of Arizona began their work for the 2025-26 legislative cycle within the last two weeks after swearing in newly-elected officials in December and early January, although municipal governments did so after their respective...

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...

Death of ‘guru’ ends tragedy of ‘sweat lodge’ saga

A Jan. 4 tweet on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, announced that self-proclaimed self-help “guru” James Arthur Ray, made notorious by his involvement in three deaths in the Verde Valley, had died at age 67. After taking a...

How to get a press release into our three newspapers

Everyone wants to be in their local newspaper, whether being interviewed for a story, photographed at a community festival or nonprofit event, asked a question for our People on the Street photos, competing in a game on our sports...

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...

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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