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The Glaze profiles Charlie Martin, the career LFUCG civil engineer who has quietly executed the EPA sanitary sewer consent decree for eighteen years — 117 projects, $19.6M Mint Lane vote, federal deadline extended to 2030, and the city's streets unmarked by sewage the whole way through.
The Department of War's first PURSUE drop posts 161 declassified UAP records: 50+ active-military mission reports from CENTCOM and INDOPACOM, 24 FBI photo evidence frames from the western U.S., a marquee slide deck called Western US Event in which seven federal law enforcement agents describe an Eye-of-Sauron orb and a spotlight beam that briefly stopped 50 yards out on nothing, plus repackaged Apollo transcripts and old State Department cables. We read the files.
The Glaze, a new Lexington Times column on quiet civic workhorses, opens with CivicLex founder Richard Young, whose three-year campaign for participatory democracy culminated in Lexington's first Civic Assembly and three proposed charter amendments now headed for the November ballot.