Tommy Acosta Sedona AZ (April 26, 2009) – Well, Mark Sterling has resigned leaving a vacuum on the city council that needs to be filled. The factions will try to put their person in and as always, the ruling element will win.  Yeah…Yeah…Yeah…There will be interviews, a selection process and all that jive but unless councilor John Bradshaw joins Mayor Adams and Councilor Hamilton in... 

Sedona Times and SedonaTimes.com editor Tommy Acosta examines the Feb. 17 Sedona city council special meeting and its emergency suspension of voting rules to disband the Mayor’s Advisory Committees in a 4-3 vote. Sedona, AZ – Editorial by Tommy Acosta. Might as well warn the reading public right now — this is going to be one heck of long editorial. The mayor’s advisory committees are... 

  Sedona Times reporter, Tommy Acosta Sedona AZ (February 18, 2009) — Opinion by Sedona Times Tommy Acosta.     As predicted, four Sedona City Council members shot the Mayor’s Advisory Committees down out of the sky at their February 17, 2009 special meeting. It was no surprise and it was expected, with it being a matter of when, and not, if.   The opportunity for their action, which... 

Tommy Acosta Sedona AZ (February 16, 2009) – Talk about a bad week for crashes. Never mind the ongoing collapse of the world financial systems and the epidemic of businesses crashing in and around Sedona. How about two one-ton satellites smashing into each other over the North Pole, spreading tens of thousands of inch-wide particles that at the speed they travel at will take out just about every... 

Sedona, AZ –By Tommy Acosta… There will be a Special City Council Meeting on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 5:30 p.m., to be held in Council Chambers, 102 Roadrunner Drive, Sedona, AZ 86336.  There will be discussion/possible action on the existence of the Mayor’s Advisory committees. Said discussion/action may concern, but not be limited to, the continuation, consolidation, dissolution,... 

Tommy Acosta Sedona AZ (February 4, 2009) – Report and Analysis By Tommy Acosta for the Sedona Times Newspaper and SedonaTimes.com  In that the other media outlets in Sedona, by this issue’s printing, have already reported on the January 27 Council meeting where the Mayor’s Advisory Committees were discussed and given a reprieve – pending staff recommendations and full council review... 

Sedona, AZ – Editorial By Tommy Acosta … What sorrow. What an unbelievable tragedy was the killing of a man’s family and his suicide just because he and his wife lost their jobs Can one imagine the state of mind the father was in to take a gun and assassinate his children his wife and take his own life? How deep was the hopelessness? How dark was the fear in his heart? One can understand,... 

Sedona, AZ — Editorials express the opinion of the writer. That’s it. Sometimes, we receive comments to post both sides of an issue in an editorial. Editorials are not news stories. The side expressed is always the side of the writer. We invite our readership, especially those with contradictory perspectives to those expressed in our editorials, to send their opinion or concern to us and we... 

Sedona, AZ – Editorial By Tommy Acosta… Watching president Obama’s inauguration and listening to speech, for a very brief moment, hope flashed in me for the future. Could it be true? Could this man bring this nation together to face the challenges ahead and right the wrongs of the previous administration? The millions who thronged to be there shown like beacons as TV cameras swept over the multitude,... 

Sedona Community Center offers the Meals on Wheels Program Sedona, AZ (January 16, 2009)–The public is invited to an event sponsored by the Northern Arizona Interfaith Council (NAIC), on February 7, 2009 at the Sedona Community Center, 2645 Melody Lane (behind Circle K on Highway 89A in west Sedona), from 9:00 AM until 2:30 PM. We have all been touched in some way by the challenges of the...