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Christopher Fox Graham

64% of voters tell Sedona City Council’s car camp to park elsewhere

The results are in on Proposition 483, a referendum on the city of Sedona’s “Safe Place to Park” homeless worker car camp. The referendum succeeded, with the “no” vote overwhelmingly rebuking the “yes” vote that would have permitted the Sedona...

Election counting is complex when margins are close

Covering election results in Verde Valley is not as easy as one might think. First, Sedona is split, with about 70% of residents on the Yavapai County side of the city and the other 30% on the Coconino side. The...

Yavapai Community College’s refusal to meet with Sedona City Council is no surprise

Surprising nearly no one who has paid any attention to Yavapai Community College’s behavior toward the Verde Valley for, well, the last 50 years, the college’s executive staff declined an offer to appear before the Sedona City Council last...

Nikki Check wins Yavapai County District 3 seat

With final numbers still coming in from the Yavapai County Recorder on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 13, the Larson Newspapers Decision Desk has called the Yavapai County District 3 seat for Democrat Nikki Check, defeating Republican Lori Drake. With...

2024 General Election Results

Election results will be posted here after 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Bookmark this page if you want to check results as they are posted. Arizona State Legislature Arizona State Senate winning vote breakdown The following chart shows the total number...

Kids, families and revelers gear up for Halloween

Halloween is by far the biggest holiday in the Verde Valley. The big day is Thursday, Oct. 31, as resi­dents and visitors celebrate the holiday with parties, concerts and trick-or-treating all over our cities and surrounding communities. As you can...

Judge slams mayor of Surprise who had critic arrested at council meeting and tosses case on First Amendment grounds

While we are a hyper-local newspaper, there are often news items in Arizona or the nation that pique our interest with regard to democracy, the rule of law, journalism or the Constitution and warrant a public discussion in our...

Lowell Observatory to open $53M Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center on Nov. 16

Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff is set to open its new 40,000-square-foot, $53 million Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center on Saturday, Nov. 16. The ribbon-cutting is set for 10:30 a.m. and the facility will officially open at 11 a.m. Dignitaries...

Sedona’s outrageously high pay-to-play development fees dooms workers, modest housing and workforce housing

Last month Sedona City Council heard a pitch from a Baltimore-based consulting firm about reasons to jack up Sedona’s already-high development fees. Council members seemed aghast to learn the fees we’re charged to build a home in Sedona are...

Bystander’s video shows end of Sedona-to-Village of Oak Creek car chase and arrest of suspect

A bystander at a Village of Oak Creek restaurant captured on several videos a of car chase through the Village of Oak Creek on Saturday, Oct. 19, and the subsequent arrest of a man who had led Sedona police...

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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