Nelson Mandela, who died December 2013 at age 95, was the architect of South Africa’s transformation from racial despotism to liberal democracy, saving his country from civil war and becoming its first black president. He served one term by choice, and after divorcing Winnie Mandela married Graca Machel, his widow. Sedona AZ (December 12, 2013) – This SedonaEye.com letter to the editor is... 

Speaker of the Arizona State House of Representatives Andy Tobin Sedona AZ (December 9, 2013) – The following is a letter to the Arizona State Legislature Speaker of the House Andy Tobin and the House of Representatives also addressed to the SedonaEye.com editor: OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER Arizona State Legislature House of Representatives 1700 West Washington – House Wing Phoenix AZ 85007 – 2844 Local... 

View of Camp Verde AZ Sedona AZ (December 10, 2013) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor thanking the Mayor of Camp Verde and a local school for anti litter efforts: Dear Town of Camp Verde Mayor German, Thank you for taking the time to recognize the efforts of those which pick up highway litter, and hopefully other Mayors will follow your lead. Since the Town of Camp Verde... 

Click here to say NO Sedona AZ (December 9, 2013) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor about a Wikileaks exposure of secret, controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations by the U.S. Government and other nations in Singapore in an attempt to bypass the U.S. Congress and allow the president to sign trade deals and control the internet without any Congressional or public... 

Sedona AZ (December 3, 2013) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: Whenever I read or hear UNPOLLUTED, I must confess a smile comes over me as after more than 30 years in the private commercial water/wastewater industry in Arizona … ‘we’ (that’s you and me) do not have any authentic voice or participation in establishing how “unpolluted” or as regulators term it... 

The City of Sedona Arizona Sedona AZ (December 1, 2013) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor requesting public involvement in the Sedona Community Plan publicity pamphlet which the letter’s author believes caters to special development interests by allowing unchecked city development and loss of national forest lands without city infrastructure investments on behalf of... 

Sedona AZ (November 27, 2013) – In a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor, Mike Lux asks Americans to sign his petition to keep Thanksgiving holiday intact for retail and other workers: In retail, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day are the only two holidays that workers traditionally receive. Now that many stores are choosing to open on Thanksgiving, that break is being taken away, denying retail workers... 

Folksville USA and Verde Villages volunteers Sedona AZ (November 18, 2013) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor about the November 16, 2013, Folksville USA and Verde Villages anti litter clean up event: I would like to thank all of the volunteers who came out to assist in the Saturday morning highway 260 cleanup on the Verde Villages 2 mile section. Of some note is the... 

Sedona AZ (November 15, 2013) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor thanking the City Council for voting against the abandonment of a portion of upper Cline Road in favor of an adjacent landowner: On Tuesday, November 12, 2013, at 4:30 PM, the Sedona City Council voted against the proposed abandonment with a resounding 6-1 vote. After attending the Council meeting last Tuesday,... 

In 2009 Iceland, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden topped the Freedom of the Press list with North Korea, Turkmenistan, Myanmar (Burma), Libya, Eritrea at the bottom. The US ranks as Satisfactory below Canada’s Good – Mexico is ranked as Difficult. In Nepal, Eritrea, and mainland China, journalists may spend years in jail simply for using the “wrong” word or photo. In 2012...