Tommy Acosta pens a look at the one year anniversary of the Sedona Verde Valley Times Sedona AZ (November 8, 2008) – Wow. Talk about a great party and celebration Saturday, November 15, of our one-year anniversary. The community came out to support us. People whom we never met were there lending there support. We are humbled and grateful. What was quite obvious is there is a great thirst in the... 

Ride Noble Captain   Under the gun of a moonless sky Johnny B. Good takes a ride Down the broken streets of time Through this strange and twisting rhyme   “Where goes the poet tonight?” He’s asked by the cop with the flashing lights. “I’m going where no one goes, he replies. I’m going to…the birthplace of lies.”   Ride noble captain to the blood of the sun Touch the flaming embers... 

Tommy Acosta Sedona AZ (November 14, 2008) – So it seems Sedona.biz editor Carl Jackson is a tad upset over alleged efforts by the city’s media-of-record to prevent the city from sharing its weekly staff or council member written columns with him for his Web site. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! For me it’s simply business-as-usual; pangs suffered by one media outlet when another begins to infringe on its... 

Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona Arizona is a national landmark Sedona AZ (November 12, 2008) – In a letter to the Sedona Times Publishing and its online SedonaTimes.com, a Sedona resident writes a viewpoint of the Real Seven Deadly Sins: 1. Regret… “Wishing I had done something else. Regret for what I did not do. Why did I do that? I should have, could have and made the wrong decision... 

Tommy Acosta, Sedona Verde Valley Times editor Sedona AZ (November 12, 2008) – Welcome readers to Thursday’s wake up call to the danger Sedona faces. Yesterday I spoke with a number of business owners in our city and needless to say “panic” is in the air. Sales tax-revenue for September decreased by more than 10 percent. The only businesses thriving are those that cater to very-well off...