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SFD Cost Per Capita
I just read the article submitted by my fellow SFD taxpayer, Robert S. Wood in the latest printed edition of the Sedona Times and need to comment on some of the items he mentioned. My Yavapai County tax bill also includes 26% for the SFD and 48% (School Equalization, Sedona Unified School District #9, Yavapai Community College, Valley Academy Ed. District) for services that as a retired individual...
SFD Facts or Fiction?
I just read the article submitted by my fellow SFD taxpayer, Robert S. Wood in the latest printed edition of the Sedona Times and need to comment on some of the items he mentioned. My Yavapai County tax bill also includes 26% for the SFD and 48% (School Equalization, Sedona Unified School District #9, Yavapai Community College, Valley Academy Ed. District) for services that as a retired individual...
Maddock Sedona Times Article Praised
Eddie (Maddock),
A masterful piece in Sedona Times! (May 6th edition, Front Page)
Mille Leenhouts Sedona AZ
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Letter to the Editor: Thank you for a well-rounded paper!
I enjoy the E-mails of the Times. I find myself reading more articles this way. Through this I found an article of classes for the KABBALAH given by Rabbi Alicia Magal, a very good teacher who makes the class very interesting. Thank you for a well rounded paper.
Wayne Bell
Sedona AZ
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Letter to the Mayor and City Council: Not One Cent for Sewer Rate Increase
Sedona Arizona
Sedona AZ (April 12, 2010) – In an open letter to the Sedona Times newspaper and its online SedonaEye.com news and views, Sedona resident Jean Jenks writes:
Dear Mayor Adams, Vice Mayor Hamilton and City Councilors:
Please be advised that I oppose increasing sewer rates one penny because:
1. CDM AND THE CITY ARE INACCURATELY CLAIMING THE WASTE WATER RATE STUDY...
Letter to the Editor: Don’t Increase Wasterwater Rates
Dear Sedona Times Editor: The City Council wants to nearly double the wasterwater rates in the next four years, because over the years they have mismanaged city funds. They want to use this indirect tax to steal from Peter to pay Paul. Just like Ronald Reagan appropriated monies from Social Security to pay for his defense build-up, the Council wants to take the increased revenue from the wasterwater...
Will New York Celebrate Al Qaeda Terrorist Month?
Letter to the Editor: If Virginia will celebrate “Confederate History Month,” then it’s ok for New York to celebrate ” Al Qaeda Terrorists Month.” After all, both the Confederacy and Al Qaeda attacked the United States of America. Both groups hoped to stand up for their radical beliefs, the Confederacy for slavery, Al Qaeda for their radical form of Islam and their...
AZ State Parks Foundation President accuses Rep. John Kavanagh of destroying Park System
Bill Meek, President Arizona State Parks Foundation rebuts Rep. John Kavanagh, Chairman House Appropriations Committee position to withhold funding for State Parks: As chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. John Kavanagh (R-Dist 8), has almost single-handedly destroyed the State Parks System, trashing some of Arizona’s irreplaceable assets and wrecking an enterprise that contributes...
Sedona Voters Apathetic and Lazy
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...
State Rep. John Kavanagh Defends Inaction on Arizona State Parks Funding Bill
Sedona AZ (March 16, 2010) – AZ State Representative John Kavanagh read a Sedona Times Letter to the Editor criticizing him for blocking State Parks funding and submitted the following in rebuttal:
Many people have questioned and even criticized me for not allowing HCR 2040, a state parks’ funding bill, to proceed out of the House Appropriations Committee, which I chair. HCR 2040 would...

