The U.S. Department of Justice approved Arizona’s congressional redistricting map, submitted by the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission on Feb. 9. The map will govern Arizona’s congressional elections for the next decade.
U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez wrote April 9 the new map conforms to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He also wrote the Department of Justice has no objections to the new map, which will first come into use for the Arizona congressional primary elections in August.
The map places Sedona, the Village of Oak Creek, Camp Verde and parts of Cornville in Congressional District 1, which stretches from the Utah border south to Pima County. It includes Flagstaff, Page, the Navajo Nation and parts of the suburbs of both Tucson and Phoenix.
Cottonwood, Jerome and parts of Cornville are in Congressional District 4, the so-called “River District,” which includes Kingman, Buckeye, Peoria, Florence and the outskirts of Yuma.
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For the full story, see the Wednesday, May 9, edition of The Camp Verde Journal or the Cottonwood Journal Extra.
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." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
