The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Panel Discussion
"What in the World?
The 2008 Presidential Campaign and Foreign Policies"

Mike Peters

Friday, 29th February, 2008 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 27th February to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

Mike Peters

Mike Peters is one of the wires editors at the Anchorage Daily News who produces the Nation/World section. He also writes features and contributes to blogs about food and gardening.

Previously, he was assistant international editor at the Dallas Morning News, where he was night editor for World pages and created a Sunday feature titled Dateline, a snapshot of an interesting place or event around the world. He wrote a Sunday column about newspaper comics for the Dallas Morning News for several years.

He was an Atlantik-Brucke (Atlantic-Bridge) fellow in Germany during the 2005 elections.

Earlier, he was the editor and publisher of Texas Gulf Coast Gardening magazine and author of The Texas Garden Yearbook. He has been an editor at magazines including New Age Journal, Ultra, Houston Metropolitan and Houston Home and Garden.

He earned a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the University of Houston, where he was editor of the campus daily newspaper in 1978.