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Christopher Fox Graham

Give advice to our newly-elected Sedona city officials

With the 2022 midterm election behind us, we can enjoy a few months of relative normalcy while partisan nominees circle their wagons, regroup and prepare for the 2024 election cycle. Their ads will start running as soon as social...

Artemis I spaceflight is both promise and poetry

Late in the evening on Tuesday, Nov. 16, or just after 1 a.m. Wednesday on the East Coast, the Artemis I mission began as the Space Launch System rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space...

U.S. Sen. Marc Kelly wins reelection; Blake Masters concedes

With unofficial 2022 midterm election results putting U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly 125,642 votes ahead of his Republican challenger, Blake Masters, 1,306,920 votes to 1,181,278 votes as of Tuesday, Nov. 15, or 51.4% to 46.5% Masters called Kelly and...

Eli Crane defeats U.S. Rep. Tom O’Halleran for District 2 congressional seat

U.S. Tom O’Halleran , a Village of Creek resident who district includes Sedona and the Verde Valley, conceded to Republican challenger Eli Crane on Friday Nov. 11. O’Halleran is currently down by 22,375 votes, 150,370 to 127,995 votes, 46.0% to...

Scott Jablow leads Sedona mayor’s race, and other 2022 election results

General Election results from Yavapai County, Coconino County and the state of Arizona, as of 9:42 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 11. These numbers are being updated as the counties and state update them. Some 400,000 votes are still outstanding...

Sedona’s City Council members should try asking kids and families what they want

After closing the playground at Posse Grounds Park on May 31, the city of Sedona has been renovating the play­ground for the last few months, finally reopening it on Oct. 18. Ask anyone under the age of 10 about their...

Yavapai College loses Clarkdale’s ‘branch campus’ status; President Rhine refuses to answer questions

Yavapai College President Lisa Rhine sent the members of the Yavapai County Governing Board a statement on Sept. 1 that the Clarkdale campus has lost its accreditation as a branch campus under federal law: “In the past, the Verde Valley...

For Sedona’s future, vote Samaire Armstrong for mayor

We deserve a family-focused fighter who will show courage, motivate residents and represent minority views If you have already voted, ignore this editorial. If you are still undecided, let us persuade you. On Oct. 6, two local men with whom I...

Larson Newspapers take home 17 state awards

At the 2021 Arizona Newspapers Association’s awards ceremony, held on Thursday, Oct. 6, Larson Newspapers won a total of 17 journalism awards. The Camp Verde Journal competes in Division 4, newspapers with a circulation under 3,500, and won 11 awards....

Sedona City Council puts cars first, workers second

I woke up this morning at the city-owned apartment complex at Posse Grounds, just east of West Sedona School. The complex’s more than 200 units are exclusively rented by Sedona workers, and as such, will never be turned into short-term...

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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