I’ll throw my two cents in here.

For the life of me, I can’t understand why the good folks who work for you have been deprived from reporting on the efforts of the united ADOT Adopt-A-Highway Permittees and the Folksville USA effort to unite thirty miles of highway over the past three years in what many have come to known as “Folksville USA.”

Your effort to ignore our Folksville USA efforts, that benefits the entire Verde Valley, will be tough for you to explain when and if the national and Phoenix area reporters ask why Larson News has gone down this destructive path of dividing and not uniting our Verde Valley and Sedona communities.

When do you want to meet to discuss how we can iron out our difference? What are our differences if any?

United we stand, divided we fall/fail.

Gary Chamberlain
“Point Man FVUSA”
Restore the Beauty
FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com

I wonder how in the issue just previous on Oct 12, she would characterize the allowance for a FRONT PAGE article “89A will bankrupt the city”, giving the vice chairman of “Let the People Vote on 89A” the freedom to make unsubstantiated statements about $25 million of unfunded projects or who the “individuals that specialize in road costs” are?

In the same issue the RRN gives another forum to the same individual that then make even more unsubstantiated comments about $60 million in 20 years and then goes on to use the now typical fear mongering about “more taxes”, “gamble with your and Sedona’s future”.

Perhaps the RRN could set about the time honored duty of an editorial column and do some FACT CHECKING and not “just the facts” as the Editor’s note suggests on page 3A Oct 12th issue.

I am pretty certain the statement of the obvious does not qualify in any journalistic circles as the final statement of the facts.

It would be refreshing to have a real discussion as to the need for traffic calming efforts on 89A, which would be helpful to the business community and would add to the safety.

Nothing thus far has addressed the real issue on this Freeway and that is TRAFFIC CALMING, not lights or signals.

ADOT has no interest in calming methodology as that has never been the primary objective of any D.O.T. nationwide.

If Sedona wants to make a business climate and safety corridor work it will do that without the interference of ADOT.

Sedona Needs to Say YES to 410 and NO to ADOT.

Dewey Akers
Sedona AZ