May 19, 2013

Wrongdoing Persists

illegal ad by LTPV

  Wednesday, November 2, 2011, Sedona Red Rock News: Another instance of wrongdoing by Let the People Vote on 89A (LTPV), specifically former Mayor Dick Ellis and Former Vice-Mayor Sheri Graham, who also heads LPTV. On the bottom left of page 10A is a political ad paid for by the former mayor and vice-mayor. While it is their privilege to seek paid advertising space, it is against the law for them—or any two or more people—to combine their efforts and resources to so seek ad space … [Read more...]

Traffic Guy Speaks Out

Dewey Akers knows traffic!

Let me begin by saying I spent eight years on the transportation committee in Portland Oregon, assigned to the Mayor's task force to conduct design with national landscape fellows for Gateway projects, Lightrail, Traffic Calming techniques and Town Center Identity and development for a Neighborhood Association that had a population base of approx 19,000 residents. So I know traffic and streetscape design concepts and am betting I could sit and talk Traffic Calming with the best engineer the city of Sedona … [Read more...]

Open Letter to Red Rock News

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Robert B. Larson is listed as the publisher for the Red Rock News. Dear Mr. Larson, You filled your October 21 [2011] editorial with unfounded generalities, misstatements and twisted facts. As the only printed news source in town, the Red Rock News would better serve the residents if it used accurate information in the right context. If we didn’t hope for better we would think the opponents of Prop 410 wrote the editorial, or you simply used the misinformation in their ads and made them … [Read more...]

Will The Real Sedona Win?

Rev. Barbara Mayer

by Barbara Mayer, Interfaith Minister Sedona has been a tourist town since the world discovered the majesty of our red rocks and the energies of this land. For the rest of the world Sedona has become a place to visit, to enjoy in many different ways -- and then to leave. We Sedonans have not left. In addition to those privileged to be born here, many more of us have made our homes and a new part of our lives here. We have come from every part of the nation and the world to become neighbors in this very … [Read more...]

Controlling Our Destiny

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As the controversy over the proper disposition of State Route 89A in West Sedona slows to a simmer, I was reminded of a fascinating book written by former Sedona resident Janet Sabina, Can't we DO Something? Memoir of Resistance to a Four-Lane Highway. March 9, 1999 ...the [City Council restated its position that the then] proposed four and five lane roadway improvements to state Route 179 are inconsistent with the goals of the Sedona Community Plan. see full article by Ernie Strauch Many people … [Read more...]