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Christopher Fox Graham

Taking risks is needed to take us to the stars

Wednesday, Feb. 1, marks the passage of 20 years since the space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry in 2003 while returning from a 16-day mission. The shut­tle’s disintegration in the upper atmosphere killed seven astronauts: Commander Rick D....

Sedona Police Cadets compete at the Chandler Tactical Competition

Sedona Police Cadets participated at the Chandler Tactical Competition on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 14 to 15, against 50 teams supported by 43 law enforcement agencies in seven states. The cadets are advised by Sedona Police Officer Catherine Beers and...

It’s beyond time for Sedona Chamber of Commerce & city of Sedona to divorce

The most recent meeting between the Sedona Chamber of Commerce and the Sedona City Council over how to handle their mutual contract next year for chamber services suggests that the best course of action for the two organizations might...

Liberty and equality go hand in hand

Tuesday, April 4, 2023, will mark the 55th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the great civil rights leaders of American history, whose official federal holiday we observed on Monday, Jan. 16. King...

Two suspects arrested in Prescott Valley for Garland’s jewelry theft

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a theft of $5,100 worth of gold and silver from Garland’s Navajo Rugs on Nov. 23. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, Prescott Valley Police Department and Sedona Police Department took 29-year-old Danut...

Learning our city and region’s history is key to Sedona’s future

The results of the 2022 National Community Survey for Sedona conducted last fall are out and they are sobering. While residents are generally happy with public safety , the natural envi­ronment and parks and recreation , the survey’s top...

This town ain’t big enough for partisanship

While choosing a speaker is nominally a ministerial func­tion handled in the first few minutes of a legislative session, Americans were riveted last week watching the U.S. House of Representatives choose its new Speaker of the House: U.S. Rep....

Smoke from prescribed burns drifts into Sedona and Verde Valley skies

The Flagstaff Ranger District is conducting pile burns in three different areas of the Coconino National Forest Wednesday, Jan. 11, through Friday, Jan 13. A1 burn project: 50-300 acres of machine piles. Located west of Flagstaff at roughlt at 35°12'39.6"N...

Free speech is for us & those we despise, too

This election cycle, voters were motivated by the slogan that “democracy was on the ballot.” Democracy is the ballot, sine qua non, and if demo­cratic states trust the will of their populace, they must accept that flawed candidates sometimes get...

Interstate 17 to close overnight between New River and Table Mesa roads Jan. 10, 11 and 12 for rock blasting

The Arizona Department of Transportation advises motorists to allow extra travel time and use caution around construction personnel and equipment while the closures and restrictions below are in place throughout the 23-mile project area from Sunday, Jan. 8, to...

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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