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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...

On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001

Wednesday, Sept. 11, marked the 23rd anniversary of the most devastating terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. The attacks were the start of a global assault on the civilized world that has defined the geopolitics of our planet for the last...

Concert series kicks off festival, tourist season

Friday, Sept. 6, will be the date for the first of the city of Sedona’s four Red Dirt Concerts, taking place at Posse Grounds Pavilion at the Barbara Antonsen Memorial Park on Posse Grounds Road. For the last eight years,...

‘Merlin’ performs his greatest magic trick … and disappears

The larger-than-life monumental bronze sculpture of “Merlin” in the Old Marketplace parking lot roundabout in West Sedona disappeared this week. But the disappearance is not theft, nor a magic trick by the great Arthurian magician of legend. According to city of...

Mayor of Surprise violates citizen’s free speech rights; judge tosses case Oct. 23

Skip Hall, the mayor of the city of Surprise, had 32-year-old Surprise resident Rebekah Massie arrested during an Aug. 20 Surprise City Council meeting’s call to the public. https://twitter.com/adamsteinbaugh/status/1827119331651502403 Massie was present to criticize a 4.4% pay raise for Surprise City...

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. 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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