Christopher Fox Graham

We Arizonans tend to agree on more than we disagree

When I started my local journalism career in Sedona as Larson Newspapers’ copy editor under Managing Editor Ryan Van Benthuysen back in 2004, I got a crash course in how local media and the news business operated in the...

Sedona police, Sedona Fire District and SWAT to hold full-scale training exercise in Uptown on Aug. 24.

On Monday, Aug. 24, from about 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. the Sedona Police Department, Sedona Fire District and the Verde Valley Regional SWAT team will conduct a multi-agency, full-scale training exercise in Uptown to practice their collaborative response...

We look forward to a new future with Yavapai College

The sudden and unceremonious departure of Lisa Rhine from the presidency of Yavapai College ends a tenure marked by tumult and disregard for a third of her tax base in the Verde Valley — a tenure ultimately and unfortunately...

Parents & students get ready to head back to school

For parents and students in Sedona and the Verde Valley, this week is big news as kids begin returning to school. Growing up in the Phoenix area, our schools got out at the end of May; we had June and...

We can all help the economic recovery after Pocket Fire

With the 28-day Pocket Fire effectively contained on July 14 and subsequently extinguished by the major monsoonal rainstorm from July 15 to 17, the blaze is out, but the repercussions remain. While the fire and efforts to fight it made...

Welcome to the newly elected City Council members

The last day for voters to cure their ballots for the July 21 primary election was Monday, July 27, i.e., to fix errors on mail-in ballots, of which there were only a handful countywide in both Coconino and Yavapai...

Sedona police arrest suspect in disguise based on tips

Woman wanted in New Jersey on felony charges After a five-month-long effort by Yavapai County law enforcement to locate and arrest Laura Marcos, a 47-year-old Sedona resident wanted on three extraditable felony warrants out of New Jersey, Sedona police, located...

Home rule passage continues trend of backing status quo

With the primary election on Tuesday, July 21, Sedona voters have weighed in on the two major propositions facing us: The alternative expenditure limitation aka "home rule" as Proposition 400 and the future of the Sedona Cultural Park, aka...

2026 Primary Election Results: Home rule, Cultural Park props pass; Fultz win mayor; Buillet, Hauserman, Dunn elected

Vote centers for the Tuesday, July 21, Primary Election closed at 7 p.m.. Yavapai and Coconino counties released their results of early ballots processed through Monday, July 20, at around 8 p.m. then periodic drops on July 22 and...

Get ready to vote in primary election on Tuesday, July 21

This is the last editorial before the July 21 Primary Election. Since Sedona straddles Yavapai and Coconino counties, ballots differ slightly and voters have different voting locations, but the city races and local ballot measures are the same for...

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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