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Red Rock News Editorials and Poll Sparks Outrage
Sedona AZ (August 26, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
In this highly contentious August 28 election, polls differ on the outcome on Home Rule. Vote No on Home Rule polls show 2/3 of voters want Sedona City Council to stop funding Chamber salaries and marketing operations and reexamine City Hall policies.
I am outraged by SRRN’s most recent editorial (8/22/18)...
Eddie S. Maddock: For the Record
SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie S. Maddock expresses appreciation to Arizona elected representatives Burges, Thorpe, Barton and Allen for going on the record to protect Sedona from questionable associations of its City Hall, local print news, Lodging Council and Chamber of Commerce, conjoined with perceived attempts to influence election outcomes by illegally disqualifying a citizens ballot initiative,...
Straight Facts for the Sedona Election Voter
Sedona AZ (July 30, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
Clearing the fog gets done by first voting NO on Home Rule and then, more importantly, to select a new city council on August 28. Let’s also all heed editor Christopher Fox Graham’s advice in the 7/27/18 Friday Red Rock News to. . “Get your facts straight before voting in election…”...
Sedona Traffic Problems Caused by Chamber and City Council
Sedona AZ (June 26, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
The 7/20/18 Red Rock News editorial by Christopher Fox Graham is headlined by “Council, don’t listen to squeaky wheel NIMBYs.” Sounds good doesn’t it? And it strikes home into the willing skeptics among us. But, as a good solution to our traffic problems, it is just about a zero.
Graham...
Home Rule Yes Vote Gives City Your Blank Check
Sedona AZ (May 8, 2018) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
Sedona City Council needs a Yes on Home Rule vote this August 28 to increase the city budget and taxes over the next four years.
“Council Talks Home Rule” (SRRN 4/18/18) is the first of many upcoming articles geared to convince us residents to vote for Home Rule. “The second public hearing will be held Tuesday...
Sedona Taxpayers Face Three Possible GO or NO GO Bonds and or Property Tax, Part III
Sedona AZ (June 20, 2017) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
Sedona Taxpayers Face Three Possible GO or NO GO Bonds and or Property Tax, Part III
Three “Possible” Bonds
Part Three (of three)
Information and Perspective by Henry Twombly
The third “possible” bond will arise from the Sedona Oak Creek School District (SOCSD) in the form of another Budget Override (BO).
We...
Sedona Taxpayers Face Three Possible GO or NO GO Bonds and or Property Tax, Part II
Sedona AZ (June 16, 2017) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
Sedona Taxpayers Face Three Possible GO or NO GO Bonds and or Property Tax, Part II
Three “Possible” Bonds
Part Two (of three)
Information and Perspective by Henry Twombly
The second possible bond will arise from the same miasma of fiscal mismanagement and political clout, wherein the policies and their...
Sedona taxpayers face three possible GO or NO GO Bonds and or Property Tax
Sedona AZ (June 15, 2017) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
Three “Possible” GO Bonds
Part One (of three)
Information and Perspective by Henry Twombly
The Wizards of Sedona continue to cast their misbegotten spells over Sedona, as we resident taxpayers are being set up for a series of three wham-bam GO bonds and/or a property tax in the next few years.
We already know...
The Ten Thousand’s Two Million Shadow
Sedona AZ (March 18, 2017) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
Sedona Red Rock View, a 2015 SedonaEye.com photo exclusive
After reading the SRRN 3/10/17 article “City & Chamber talk contract,” I began to wonder if the Chamber has become a part of a shadow government, and if the Council has unwittingly ceded some of its powers to the Chamber. The City gives...
Adversarial Voices Are Precisely What Local Governments Need
Sedona AZ (February 23, 2017) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
In response to the 2/22/17 SRRN editorial I sympathize with the critic of the SFD, who has “irreproachable credentials and experience” but who declined to serve on the bond advisory committee. Most likely he surmised that due to his “adversarial” perspective, he would be ignored and...