Sedona AZ (July 16, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:   Patriots, join us for this week’s Sedona Mayor, City Council Debates and Home Rule discussions/town halls (see below).  Thank you in advance for showing up to support efforts to replace incumbents on City Council, and our current Mayor, with candidates that will listen to you.  Join us to show... 

Sedona AZ (July 13, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: Sedona in Motion (SIM) Council plan dumps tourist traffic into subdivisions to create profits for tourism business owners while destroying quality of life and safety for Sedona families and elderly writes traffic engineer John Roberts, a Sedona resident. City staff and council are fully backing this SIM program... 

Sedona AZ (June 26, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: The 7/20/18 Red Rock News editorial by Christopher Fox Graham is headlined by “Council, don’t listen to squeaky wheel NIMBYs.” Sounds good doesn’t it? And it strikes home into the willing skeptics among us. But, as a good solution to our traffic problems, it is just about a zero. Graham... 

Sedona AZ (June 19, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: In an earlier article I included the chart below to show what I called the Blob Effect. I compared the growth of Sedona city government to the alien creature in the 1958 movie, The Blob. This organism kept on growing bigger and bigger, just like our City staff and budgets as this chart attests… FISCAL FULL-TIME*... 

Article written and submitted by City of Sedona AZ. Sedona AZ (June 16, 2018) – The public is invited to a Sedona Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. in the Sedona City Council Chambers for discussion and possible action regarding the update of the city’s Land Development Code (LDC). The council chambers are located in the City Hall complex... 

SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie S. Maddock revisits the City of Sedona Dream and why Home Rule and the City Council are destroying it. Sedona AZ  – Whether an idiom, proverb or adage, the saying ““a watched pot never boils”” takes on a totally new meaning in Sedona, Arizona. It might more appropriately be changed to “”watched pots never STOP boiling” in this neck of... 

Sedona AZ (April 15, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: Sedona wastewater treatment wetlands: In 2016, over 40% of Sedona homes still lacked sewer hook-ups. Despite 4% annual rate increases since 2014 (scheduled to sunset June 30, 2018), the City Council plan to continue with annual increases of 4% through 2020 and 3% through 2023 has many Sedona residents questioning... 

Sedona AZ (March 23, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: (In a SedonaEye.com comment) Steve Segner says: March 20, 2018 at 4:30 pm – “Robert Smith I am hosting a meeting on home rule April 10 at 8:30 at the Sedona rouge I’m going to have theCity manager come and talk about home rule and how it will affect the city and also about the upcoming $30 million... 

Article submitted by City of Sedona AZ Sedona AZ (March 15, 2018) – Traffic has probably been the #1 hot topic over the course of the last several years, and certainly during the last city election cycle. The need to actually “do something” to address Sedona’s traffic issues was one of the primary reasons I and my fellow city councilors were elected. There is no quick fix or silver bullet,... 

SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie S. Maddock takes another look at Sedona past and prophetic headlines. Sedona AZ (August 28, 2017) – Revisiting our catchy headline journey, let us begin with a guest column by Pat Pomphrey, Member, Sedona City Council, RRNews 11/07/90:  And What Can We Expect Here in Sedona? City creates ‘Disaster Waiting to Happen’. And it gets better with its insert...