tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11234055593906603832012-02-16T20:09:53.616-07:00Hire this writer!Cyndy Hardyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13183378451990701474noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1123405559390660383.post-46520154937432827592011-06-30T18:11:00.000-07:002011-06-30T18:11:46.881-07:00

The following is a comment thread I posted in regarding a news article about a blog war. Isn't THAT an oxymoron? CyndyHardy 22 minutes ago Armstrong is a blogger, not a journalist: she is not confined by the 4th wall. YOU don't have the power to control how she chooses to capitalize on her own celebrity. Good on her for building her brand to where Yahoo sponsored her trip in return

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Four officers were shot dead while working on paperwork at a local coffee shop in Parkland, Wash. News reports allege the shooting was premeditated by one or more perpetrators. It is difficult for anyone to concentrate on one's surroundings while writing on a computer. That this crime was premeditated indicates the officers regularly compromised their safety.The department and police chief should

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A couple was arrested in Salt Lake City on June 9 (CORRECTION: July 9) after holding hands, hugging, and sharing a kiss on property owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Mormon church security guards saw the public display of affection, reportedly deemed it “inappropriate,” and immediately demanded the couple leave the property. The couple refused to leave and questioned the

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Talk to any Sedona Jeep tour driver and you’ll learn that kids don’t own the market for saying the darndest things.Drivers put a lot of effort into spinning interesting and compelling yarns about the geography and history of places they take city folk and international visitors; especially those who drive for companies that have to go a little farther into the outback to get to the good

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In response to this article ...It’s a sad thing that our profession was once important enough to be written into the law of the land; and now it is relegated to the law of supply and demand.I feel your enthusiasm and your pain, Caleb. I was often targeted by a special interest group in Sedona, Ariz. for shining light on its clandestine political operations. The difference was that Arizona state

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The Arizona Press Club announced its 2008 awards on May 16, 2009.Here's what the judge had to say about my 2nd place award for Best Use of the Web:“This series of reports are very local and relevant to the daily lives of Sedona residents. The use of video and photography help create a sense place and reveal the inner workings of local government.”Articles included:"Fondamenta of Sedona," "Chapel

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Every now and then I do a Google search of my own name to see if anyone's talking about me or plagiarizing my work -- hey, it happens.Buried on the fourth page of search results was an entry for the Arizona Press Club.Seems I've won an award for something I did for Sedona.biz in 2008.I feel like a little kid on Christmas Eve!I won't know what the award is for until May 12, when the APC announces

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Not quite Sedona news, but I thought my article about public transit might be of interest to those of you lurking about this site since my move to Utah. I graduated from a high school near Lindon, Utah – back when cows and hay dominated the landscape and the population was about 10 times less than it is today.Seems Utah County (we’ve always called it Happy Valley) turned to auto dealers and call

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In my spare time I often browse journalism peer sites to learn more about the new media phenomenon and try to get ideas for my own direction in the business. This video was produced by a professor of anthropology and his students. It examines the impacts YouTube has had on social media -- which is a profound insight, to me, on how we as a profession can learn from new technologies to better

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If the public and publishers choose to support free content in the name of community journalism, everyone deserves what they get. For example, the Sedona Red Rock News recently canceled a city column because they found out the city was simultaneously submitting the column to my local publisher. The RRN dressed up its rational in a disagreement with the mayor over editing policies, but the back

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Today, anyone with bandwidth can be a publisher; and anyone with a word processor can pen an “article” and get it published. In this example, the writer intentionally misinformed the public to further a special interest agenda. My article with the other side of the story is filed and awaiting publication.One problem our industry faces is that people don’t seem to recognize the hours, thought and

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As a youth, I was always fascinated by the mind and how it works. I thought about careers in criminal law or criminal psychology, but life took me in a different direction. Still, I never lost the curiosity about the mysteries of human behavior.Another interest – music – kept me in close proximity to the drug culture even though I didn’t get involved myself. I have a knack for getting people to

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Here's some email feedback on my recent public transit article :Thank you, Cyndy, for writing such informative articles about our City government. You cover things beautifully, providing helpful background information. I get info in SedonaBiz that we can not find in the Red Rock News. Keep up the great work! Carol WirkusSedona residentCyndy:I wanted you to know that your article was one of the

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by Cyndy HardyAppears in the March issue of The Noise. Available for reprints.SEDONA, Feb. 19 – A random stranger recently told me that if he lived in Germany during WWII and a couple of SS soldiers showed up at his house asking if he was hiding Jews in his basement, “I’d have two dead Nazis on my porch and Jews in my basement.”The violent image shocked me. This wasn’t about Jews and Nazis. We

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by Cyndy HardyAppears in the March issue of The Noise. Available for reprint.SEDONA, Feb. 12 – The Sedona City Council backed off a possible eminent domain action amid high cost estimates and doubts a condemnation could pass legal muster. As a result, U.S. Forest Service land may be razed in an area southeast of Airport Mesa and west of Hwy. 179 for a private 400-foot bridge over Oak Creek and ¾-

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Story and photo by Cyndy HardyAvailable for reprintSomething smells at the Sedona Wastewater Treatment Plant – and it isn’t just the sludge. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality’s 2002 mandate to Sedona to remove mass amounts of trees and foliage in the city’s three reclaimed water reservoirs went ignored. In August 2007, ADEQ Inspector Craig Brown discovered that not a shovel had been

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Three years ago tonight, a couple hundred people jammed into a tiny neighborhood bar in West Sedona to say goodbye to nearly 40 years of tradition and culture. The Laughing Coyote bar, which had maintained its culture under several names and owners, closed its doors for the last time at 2 a.m. on Feb. 4, 2005. People came who hadn’t been there for years. There were tears, laughter, dancing,

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Story and photos by Cyndy HardySEDONA, Jan. 17 – A lunch hour two-vehicle collision on Hwy. 89A in West Sedona sent one woman to the hospital and shook up four others. The accident happened at about 12:26 p.m. in front of Hotel Rouge in West Sedona. Sedona Police Department Sgt. Kevin Ahern said a newer-model Jeep Compass was eastbound on Hwy. 89A, attempting a left turn into the hotel parking

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1,646 words. Available for reprint.Story and photo by Cyndy HardyPhoto: ELPIDIO SOTO crossed the desert and the Arizona border to wash dishes for $7 per hour.SEDONA, Dec. 30 – Come Jan. 1, a new sheriff will ride a pale horse into town; and its name is Legal Arizona Workers Act. LAWA aims to take up where the federal government left off, ridding the state of unauthorized workers. Trouble is, some

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2,493 words. Available for reprint.Story and photo by Cyndy HardyAppears in the January edition of The Noise.Photo: HAWKEYE RV Park, slated for condo development, looks like a ghost town today.Mike Horner is dubious about the city’s intentions to do something – anything – about affordable housing in Sedona. To him, it’s empty talk about doing what’s best for the community by people who cater

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by Cyndy HardySOUTH OF FLAGSTAFF – Traffic is closed in both directions on I-17 after a truck carrying hazardous materials crashed near mile post 310, about 30 miles south of Flagstaff, according to Gary Johnson, public information officer for the Sedona Fire District.3TV and azfamily.com in Phoenix report one confirmed fatality in the accident, which occurred early Monday morning. ADOT, Pinewood

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SEDONA -- Emergency crews are responding to a reported "arcing power pole" in Uptown that may have caused a power outage at this moment. No other details available yet.

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by Cyndy HardySEDONA, December 7 – Several residents and businesses were alerted to voluntarily evacuate this evening as Oak Creek swelled over several low-water crossings.“Evacuation is not mandatory but some residents could get trapped in any of those low-lying areas,” said Sedona Police Cmdr. Marlayne Hatler.The National Weather Service in Flagstaff issued a flash flood watch at 2:07 p.m. and

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by Cyndy HardySEDONA, Dec. 5 – Negative attitudes won’t make Hwy. 179 construction any better, according to Sedona leaders at the first of four scheduled public forums for Phase Two of the Hwy. 179 Improvement Project. Today they urged the community to buy in to a positive spin.Negative reports damage tourism, according to Jennifer Wesselhoff, president and CEO of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce,

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by Cyndy Hardy SEDONA – Sedona police halted northbound traffic south of Midgely Bridge at about 1:20 p.m. upon reports of a rock slide on Hwy. 89A, north of Slide Rock State Park. Arizona Department of Public Safety officers determined that three boulders had fallen into the roadway. Motorists were able to navigate around the boulders and at about 1:42 p.m.traffic resumed. ADOT crews

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by Cyndy Hardy The U.S. Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit today reversed a lower court’s decision that would have paid about $18 million to freelance writers whose work was unlawfully distributed by some major publishers and electronic database services. The writers lost this round of litigation because they had not registered their work with the U.S. Copyright Office. The lower court

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by Cyndy HardyUpdated Jan. 13, 2008Presidential candidate Mitt Romney bombed at CNN’s Nov. 28 YouTube debate. The meltdown started when he bashed Rudy Giuliani for his sanctuary policies as mayor of New York City.Giuliani said his policies complied with federal mandates to provide healthcare and education regardless of immigration status. Like it or not, those are rights protected by the U. S.

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