About Charles
Usual Suspect
I am a writer and editor interested in law, government policy and the balance of interests between the state, citizens and press.
I’ve been writing since age 10 when, in 1962, I launched a short-lived, mimeographed neighborhood “newspaper” in Orange County, California. The October Missile Crisis that year taught me something about the impact of faraway events on my life and family. (Nothing like impending nuclear Armageddon to seize your attention.) It also taught me about the maddening malevolence of mimeograph machines. Later I worked as a news service reporter, columnist and bureau chief in California’s capital, then as news and opinion editor of several law and government-policy newspapers, including the largest daily legal newspaper in the United States.
Since 1987 I have used my editorial and management skills to help create new-business proposals and prepare or manage a variety of corporate publications. Most recently I edited a book on energy use and planning for the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), a policy think tank in Paris.
I have not seen a mimeograph machine in decades.
Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI)![]()
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