Sedona, AZ — Don’t forget everybody today is our fundraiser party at the Sedona Heritage Museum, 735 Jordan Road, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. featuring a performance by Chris Spheeris and goodies for all. The Sedona-Verde Valley Times invites everyone to attend and help us continue to serve our community by providing in-depth news reporting and analysis in both our Web site and our pulp publication... 

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... 

Sedona, AZ — 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 it’s weekly staff or councilmember-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 territory. I’ve never asked... 

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 and the only businesses thriving are those that cater to very-well off locals while those serving the mainstream are surviving on the life savings of... 

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 not to.”   This sin is paramount in the self-hate and torture of oneself. It is the paralyses, the stopper of creative thinking because the mind then preoccupies itself with the past and wishing it had done something else. Over and over thoughts...