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... 

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... 

By Chris Seymour –If you’re like me, you’ve had it up to here with the American pop music industry. As a member of the Boomer generation, I had the good fortune of living the wonder years through Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Motown and the unprecedented creative transformations of folk, rock, R&B and soul music. The political and social activism of the times framed the explosion of musical... 

A Perspective … Are you aware of what is NOT disclosed nor made transparent…?   ENN: Environmental News Network — Know Your Environment  Groundwater Vulnerability … The Earth is truly a blue planet; 70% of its surface is covered with water. Unfortunately 97.5% of that is salt water, unusable for humans. Fresh water accounts for the other 2.5%, however, about two thirds of that is locked... 

10 “facts” I invite you the research for yourself before you summarily believe all the unsubstantiated CLAIMS  about recently legislated health care reform …Original article by Angie Drobnic Holan … Published on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 7:09 p.m. We go beyond the slogans and tell you what’s really in the bill. …  PolitiFact  … has checked hundreds of claims about health care... 

By Larry Rosenberg — Have you become aware of how confused, disoriented and worried people are these days? One hears more talk of gloom and doom, and the end of the world, or at least of the familiar, if very imperfect, world in which we live. What is going on in our culture and psyches? And what can individuals, particularly those of us living in blessing-filled Sedona, do about it? Our national... 

Dear Sedona Times Editor:  Texas’ messing with history is nothing new. The Texas State Board of Education has been trying to re-fight the Civil War and Reconstruction, Indian wars, and the Spanish-American War using textbooks for a long time. I attended Texas public schools from the 50s through 60s. Though I got a good education in some areas, I have profound anger about some of the lies and omissions... 

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 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... 

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...