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Christopher Fox Graham

Massive city budget exposes Sedona City Council’s errors

The Sedona City Council is about ready to vote to approve the 2022-23 budget, which will be the largest in the city’s history, dwarfing the last years’ budgets by tens of millions of dollars. Many fiscally conservative Sedona residents on...

Committee Fire burning atop Munds Mountain east of Sedona; see videos and photos

The Committee Fire burning atop Munds Mountain, as seen from West Sedona around 4:30 pm Sunday, July 17. Ash is beginning to rain in Uptown, downwind of the fire. https://youtu.be/g-E9GbW4GmA The Committee Fire was reported at 12:20 p.m. Friday, July 15....

Reject proxies who want to corrupt our Sedona City Council and mayoral election

So far in the 2022 election, we have managed to go several months with the kind of respectability that we called for at the beginning of the election cycle and to which 10 candidates currently running for office have...

With ballots going out, be sure to vote responsibly, especially for Sedona mayor and City Council

Wednesday, July 6, was the last scheduled debate potential for Sedona City Council and mayoral candi­dates co-hosted by the Sedona Chamber of Commerce and the League of Women Voters Northern Arizona Chapter, held at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. It...

Man dies after jumping into Oak Creek near Manzanita Campground

On Saturday, July 9, at approximately 3:45 p.m. Sedona Fire District crews responded to the area of 5900 N State Route 89A near Manzanita Campground, a short distance south of Slide Rock State Park, according to SFD Community Risk...

Maria Husted resigns from Sedona-Oak Creek School District Governing Board

Yavapai County School Superintendent Tim Carter has announced a vacancy on the Sedona-Oak Creek School District Governing Board member Maria Husted has resigned, due to the fact that her family has relocated out of the community and she is...

Sedona Parks and Recreation creates good times and memories for our children

On Monday, July 4, Americans celebrated our 246th Independence Day. Founding Father John Adams suggested our Independence Day would “be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other,” and fireworks deto­nated...

Leave activism to the dedicated, not weekend warriors

With a ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health on Friday, June 24, the Supreme Court of the United States returned back to state legislatures across the country the ability to legalize, ban or otherwise regulate abortion access, as...

Due to monsoon rains, Coconino National Forest lifts all fire restrictions

Due to significant precipitation received across the Coconino National Forest, fire restrictions and certain area closures will be lifted. The Walnut Canyon and Pumphouse Wash area closures will be lifted, and most of the forest will have no fire restrictions...

Arizona state lawmakers compromise and pass bipartisan budget

Due to Arizona’s shifting demographics our state is becoming more and more purple, due to new residents moving here from more liberal states, the increasing diversity from non-white residents, and as our state gets progressively younger with older, more...

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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