AZPoliticalnews.com is a Web site that aggregates news and commentary about the Copper State from various Internet sources. Links are provided back to the original source and, per fair use, one to three paragraphs are included to give you, the reader, a sense of the article or opinion.

As you probably already know, links on the Internet become unreliable over time. Our guess is that links tend to have a half-life of about 6 months, so we do recognize that the links we provide are not guaranteed to work in the future. As a matter of fact, a more accurate statement would be that links from AZPoliticalnews.com are guaranteed *not* to work in the future. This is a general problem with the Internet at large which is not going to be solved any time soon, so we all must live with the problem, unfortunately. Minds greater than ours will have to come up with a solution to this grave informational loss which occurs daily.

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Peter Bakke

Peter Bakke is the creator and former editor of AZPoliticalNews.com, an Arizona-based Web site devoted to rounding up political news and opinion for the Copper State.

Bakke has always had an interest in the news of the day, including local, state and presidential politics. He is the former online manager of the highly regarded Concord Monitor newspaper of Concord, New Hampshire. As the Monitor's online manager, he experienced the New Hampshire primary up close and personal, having participated in the 1988 through 2004 primaries.

He has now adopted the vibrant Arizona political scene as his focus and shares his zeal with you on AZPoliticalNews.com.

Bakke's other professional experience has included working as an IBM software engineer and managing a family business in Henniker, NH. He holds a masters degree in International Relations from Troy University and a bachelors degree in Computer Systems Applications from American University.

Bakke resides in Tucson with his wife, Cheryl. He can be reached via email or by phone at 520-820-6170.

Bakke is also editor of Electapres.com, a web site devoted to aggregating news and opinion about the "perpetual" United States presidential election.

Views expressed by columnists and editors don't necessarily reflect those of Mr. Bakke.