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Public notices in newspapers keep eye on government

A person’s No. 1 source of local news is still the newspaper. Residents pick up The Camp Verde Journal to read about the latest...

Voice your views with a letter to the editor

With the 2022 midterm primary election behind us, we have a few months of relative normalcy while partisan nominees circle the wagons, recoup and...

Election results will be posted after polls close at 7 p.m. Aug. 2

Tuesday, Aug. 2, is the primary election. Due to the particularities of our newspaper production schedule, we will be going to press before the...

Ethics demand we journalists earn trust by our objectivity

When major world events happen, be it the invasions of and withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S....

Yavapai College board member Kuknyo fails to grasp taxes are public’s money

At a meeting of the Yavapai College Governing Board on Nov. 16, the board went on the attack against District 3 Representative Paul Chevalier,...

Yavapai College board needs to retake basic geography

At a meeting of the Yavapai College Governing Board on Nov. 16, board members went on the attack against District 3 Representative Paul Chevalier,...

To social media, we aren’t people, just commodities

There was some dramatic testimony before Congress earlier this month regarding the inner workings of the social media giant Facebook.  Frances Haugen, a company whistleblower...

Carol Anne Teague’s letter to student demonstrates complete leadership failure

Last week, the Mingus Union High School District Governing Board President, Carol Anne Teague, responded to a student who had emailed her teachers, the...

More housing diversity is springboard to prosperity

A Sedona resident is planning on building a 192-unit apartment complex on Candy Lane in Cottonwood near Verde Valley Medical Center. While not set...

AutoCamp is wrong project for location

We were not particularly surprised when hearing this week that the owners of the proposed AutoCamp site had pulled their application for building a...

Supervisor Michaels must take greater care with facts and not spread lies

At her first meeting as an elected official, Yavapai County District 3 Supervisor Donna Michaels told so many falsehoods in six minutes it’s hard...

Whether pro or con, campaign donations should be local

Typically in a local election year, we report on the issues and ballot propositions for weeks, sometimes months or years, covering both sides as...

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Kyle Larson