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 About the Author: Lou Guzzo, onetime crime-busting editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, led his staff in investigative campaigns that resulted in the indictment of more than 55 top officials in government and the Seattle Police Department, the county prosecutor, and the chief of police --- all of them involved in a bribery and payoff scandal. He and his news staff exposed a statewide nursing-home racket and also prevented smoldering race riots with a four-month probe of racism in the city and state. After nearly 20 years of service at The Seattle Times, most of it as the music, drama, films, and arts critic, Lou was named managing editor of the Post-Intelligencer. Later, he also served as a communications consultant to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and as public-affairs officer in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. He helped run Dr. Dixy Lee Ray's successful campaign for the governorship of Washington State and was her chief policy counselor in her four years in office. In that position, he served as the governor's cultural-affairs director, her representative to the Education Commission of the States, and liaison to all Indian tribes of Washington. After government service, Lou became the commentator and editorial consultant at Seattle's KIRO-TV and Radio. He is also a lifetime musician, composer, and arranger and the author of more than 20 books. Two of them, Trashing the Planet and Environmental Overkill, he co-authored with the late Governor Ray; both were best-sellers.
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