This article submitted by the city of Sedona AZ. Sedona AZ (July 7, 2009) – City of Sedona Mayor, Rob Adams, writes about the city of Sedona finances in his article entitled, The City Finances – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: After months of research, negotiating, wrangling and sleepless nights, the Sedona City Council approved the City budget for fiscal year 2009-2010 on Tuesday, June... 

Tommy Acosta Sedona AZ (June 15, 2009) – Big Park Council, the council which represents twenty-seven home owner associations in the Village of Oak Creek (VOC), Sedona, Arizona, met on Thursday, June 11, 2009, at the Sedona Fire District VOC fire station meeting hall. The business meeting began at 9:00 in the morning but, due to a debate on the NSA Designation, dozens of interested folk... 

Sedona AZ (May 25, 2009) – The Sedona City Council once again reversed itself on cuts for its tentative 2009 – 2010 Budget taking money back from community associations that had seen funds cut, then had money restored, and now have funding reduced again. During budget hearings held the week of May 4, 2009, the Sedona City Council suggested pulling an additional $100,000 out of its reserve... 

Tommy Acosta Sedona AZ (April 26, 2009) – Well, Mark Sterling has resigned leaving a vacuum on the city council that needs to be filled. The factions will try to put their person in and as always, the ruling element will win.  Yeah…Yeah…Yeah…There will be interviews, a selection process and all that jive but unless councilor John Bradshaw joins Mayor Adams and Councilor Hamilton in... 

Sedona Times and SedonaTimes.com editor Tommy Acosta examines the Feb. 17 Sedona city council special meeting and its emergency suspension of voting rules to disband the Mayor’s Advisory Committees in a 4-3 vote. Sedona, AZ – Editorial by Tommy Acosta. Might as well warn the reading public right now — this is going to be one heck of long editorial. The mayor’s advisory committees are... 

Tommy Acosta Sedona AZ (February 16, 2009) – Talk about a bad week for crashes. Never mind the ongoing collapse of the world financial systems and the epidemic of businesses crashing in and around Sedona. How about two one-ton satellites smashing into each other over the North Pole, spreading tens of thousands of inch-wide particles that at the speed they travel at will take out just about every... 

Sedona AZ (February 7, 2009) – An Opinion by Sedona resident Cynthia Tierra: In the SVVT (Sedona Verde Valley Times) February 5th issue, Charles Hinkley presented a history behind the development of roundabouts on Hwy 179 and on Hwy 89A and he claims roundabouts are an asset to the community. Public input helped determine the choices that were made, but that doesn’t mean the roundabouts... 

Sedona, AZ —By Don Griffith… “It can’t possibly happen here.” “You can’t stop ‘progress.’” “I’ve lived here for 30 years, so I know what’s right for Sedona.” We’ve all heard colleagues, friends and neighbors say something like this when newcomers and others challenge seemingly insignificant decisions related to public services, safety, tourism, housing and land... 

Tommy Acosta, Sedona Times Publishing guest writer Sedona AZ (December 26, 2008) – The real deal, the number one issue and story in Sedona for 2009 will be the devastating effect our global economy is going to have on our local businesses and what our local government is going to do about it.   The Ochser trial aftermath; the 76 lights or more for 89A battle; an NSA designation for Sedona... 

Tommy Acosta Sedona AZ (December 26, 2008) – What a nightmare. Santa comes knocking on the door on Christmas Eve, whips out a gun, shoots the eight-year old girl who answered in the face, walks into a family Christmas party, blows away a bunch of other innocent people, sprays them and the house with a flammable liquid, sets the place on fire, escapes and kills himself later with a single shot...