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Christopher Fox Graham

Honor those who served and fell in America’s conflicts

Residents and visitors have noticed the American flags and some Prisoner of War-Missing in Action flags along State Route 89A, installed just before Armed Force Day on May 21 and which will be up until after Memorial Day, Monday,...

Ask candidates how they will retain families

The city of Sedona opened the Splash Pad at Sunset Park on May 1. As it is every summer, the splash pad is the high­light of toddlers and young children’s lives for several sweltering months. My wife has taken our...

ADOT to reduce lanes the ‘Y’ at 7 p.m. for a week

Plan for overnight lane restrictions at the "Y" Roundabout. The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising motorists to plan for lane restrictions at the intersection of State Routes 89A and 179, known as the “Y” Roundabout in Sedona from...

The other side’s fringe beliefs are destroying America

The problem with partisanship in the political divide in the United States is that folks on the other side of the aisle have completely lost their minds, especially in the last few years. We know our political party aligns with...

Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade leak upends and ends status quo on abortion

The nation is abuzz with news that the Supreme Court of the United States may overturn Roe v Wade via a leaked document apparently revealing a draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in a Mississippi case before the...

Crooks, Tunnel fires bode ill for wildfire season

Fire season in Northern Arizona is a perennial threat to our homes, businesses, recreational spaces and landmarks. Fire season typically begins in May, intensifies at the tail end of the month, peaks in early June and, depending on monsoon rains,...

Judge lifts CDC’s mask mandate on airline travel

On Monday, April 18, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Florida struck down the mask mandate required when traveling on public buses, public transit like cabs and ride-sharing, trains and aircraft. This ends a federal mandate affecting most Americans...

Nix crosswalk at Tlaquepaque to reduce backups

Any Sedona residents who have been here more than two years can tell you the last two springs have seen some of the busiest traffic in our history driven in part by American tourists unable to travel abroad or...

Sedona council election could be a wild one

The petitions are in and we have 10 candidates who will be running for seats on Sedona City Council. As reporter Juliana Walter covered last week, there are four candidates for mayor and six for the three open seats. The...

Crooks Fire sends smoke into Verde Valley, Tunnel Fire leads to Flagstaff evacuations

At approximately 10 a.m. on Monday, April 18, Prescott National Forest crews responded to a reported wildfire south of Prescott near Mount Union. The Crooks Fire is now burning 600 acres and sending smoke northeast into the Verde Valley. Neither...

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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