Sedona City Council Sedona AZ (May 18, 2014) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: The City Council is disenfranchising (in effect) snowbird residents by scheduling in August the vote on extending Home Rule.  Even though we just had that vote in March 2012, new state laws require the City to vote on Council elections and other issues in the fall of even-numbered years.  If... 

Sedona AZ (July 24, 2012) – The 26th Amendment of the Constitution states “The rights of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged…” but yet we continue to see dismal actual voter turnouts. Since the mid 1960’s, voter turnout across all ages, with a few exceptions, has been declining. The United States has on average... 

Sedona Times Publishing Political Central columnist Joni Dahlstrom analyzes the recent Arizona primary in this follow the money article. Sedona Times Political Central columns are authored by Joni Dahlstrom, SedonaEye.com Staff Writer In spite all the talk of citizen activism, the chatter that citizens have just simply had enough of slick well-funded candidates, the August 24th Primary in Arizona... 

Sedona AZ (March 16, 2010) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: I seem to recall in history classes during those long hours in grade school and high school that there were 100s of thousands of men and women who gave their lives so that we may be free. Free to elect who we wanted to represent us and protect our republic at all levels of government. Sedona just completed an...