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Christopher Fox Graham

Smoke lingers due to our wildfire management

The Verde Valley has seen a fair number of days with heavy smoke over the last few weeks as wildfires and control burns blaze in Northern Arizona. Naturally-occurring wildfires over which we have little control begin with lightning strikes in...

Sedona City Council wise to not pursue Sedona Airport takeover

We commend the Sedona City Council for its unanimous decision to refrain from taking over the Sedona Airport. The concept was floated as a potential workaround to the city’s conflict with the Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority and, to a lesser...

Journalistic ethics dictate our coverage and how we write the news

Having been in journalism for over 20 years and managing editor of Larson Newspapers for 11 years, I’ve seen all manner of stories, drama, scandals and internecine fighting in local government. The Sedona Red Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal...

Applaud four Sedona City Council members who OK’d Saddlerock Crossing and 46 workforce housing units

We commend the four members of the Sedona City Council — Councilwomen Melissa Dunn and Jessica Williamson and Councilmen Brian Fultz and Pete Furman — who voted in the majority on Tuesday, Sept. 24, to approve the Saddlerock Crossing...

Register to vote before the Oct. 7 election deadline

The deadline to register to vote in the 2024 general election is coming up on Monday, Oct. 7. We encourage all potential voters who have never voted before, and new residents qualified to register to vote, to do so as...

Heavy smoke in skies of Sedona coming from wildfires near Payson

The heavy smoke in the Verde Valley on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 26, is drifting northwest from the 15,053-acre West Fire and 3,167-acre Preacher Fire located northwest and northeast of Payson, respectively. The 15,053-acre West Fire is burning on...

Candidate debates show voters how leaders reason when making decisions

The Sept. 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump was watched live by 67 million people and discussed by millions more on social media and around dinner tables and analyzed at length on television,...

Death of Chevron deference may reopen roads that the US Forest Service has closed

For years, the U.S. Forest Service has been closing thousands of miles of motorized trails in Arizona and more throughout the American Southwest. A significant number of the road closures were imposed ostensibly to maintain forest health, reduce wildfire, close...

Ban of Twitter in Brazil raises free speech questions

On Aug. 31, the nation of Brazil banned Twitter — no one in real life calls it “X” — in an argument over free speech. The fight between Twitter’s owner, American billionaire Elon Musk, and Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court Justice...

NCIS arrests Sedona man for $178 million in federal wire fraud and money laundering charges

A Sedona man who was arrested while walking his dog on Dry Creek Road on Thursday, Sept. 5, by plainclothes agents with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service was indicted on Monday, Sept. 9, on federal wire fraud and money...

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 and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."
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