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Christopher Fox Graham

Sedona isn’t only city with vacation rental troubles

It’s important to know that Sedona is not the only community in the state, nor the only in Northern Arizona suffering from the blight of unchecked vaca­tion rentals vaporizing the housing market and turning residential neighborhoods into de facto...

Political change requires work, not keystrokes

While many have argued that one of the most perni­cious problems in local and national government is hyper-polarization and militant partisanship that draws stark dividing lines in our communities both locally and nationally, an underlying issue propagates and exasper­ates...

How to get your news published in our newspapers

It’s a simple enough procedure to get your news into the newspaper, but there are some things you ought to know first. “News,” according to the journalistic definition, is “that which is of the greatest interest to the greatest number.” When...

Mistakes happen, but dialogue is essential for city

The one drawback of print journalism is that errors are part of the permanent public record. One of my previous managing editors told me after I was beating myself up after my first error nearly 20 years ago that...

Redrawing lines gives us more power

With the 2020 Census comes the decennial redrawing of congressional and legislative lines, the first use of which will be for the upcoming 2022 election cycle. After 10 years in Legislative District 6, joined with Flagstaff and the White Mountains,...

‘Spring Break Traffic Returns’ is our horror film

Sedona’s traffic delays on Wednesday, March 16, were some of the worst in the city’s history that didn’t involve a fatal accident or collision on Cooks Hill. Traffic northbound on State Route 179 was backed up to the Chapel area...

Verde Valley on cusp of change as pandemic wanes

The 2020 census is firmly established that the Verde Valley is rapidly increasing while the Sedona area is seeing a shrinking population size. Based only on residents inside the official jurisdiction, Camp Verde is now the largest incorporated town...

Enjoy return of St. Patrick’s Parade March 12

While Thursday, March 17, is St. Patrick’s Day, Sedona’s nearly annual St. Patrick’s Parade will be held this Saturday, March 12. Since the parade moved off State Route 89A to Jordan Road in Uptown, annual estimated attendance ranges between 3,000...

Elect officials who reflect our ideas, diversity

We have been pleasantly surprised — and voters should be also — about the number of potential candidates who have pulled packets to run for public office in Sedona to lead our city. As of press time there are 13...

Free speech doesn’t protect from consequences

When a lawmaker representing Sedona and the Verde Valley makes national headlines, it’s either for something ridiculous or for something horrendous. We always hope it’s for the former, but it’s almost inevitably for the latter. And so it is the...

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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