Cottonwood-Oak Creek School District voters approved a continuation of a budget override with 3,271 votes in favor and 3013 votes against, or 52.05% to 47.95%. The Mingus Union High School District, however, barely won approval, 3,691 to 3,637, or 50.37% to 49.63%.
There were only five question asked in four jurisdictions in Yavapai County on Election Day 2021. These two ballot measures were the only two affecting residents of the Verde Valley.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."
