Daily Progress round-up for December 4 through December 7

I had not read the Daily Progress cover to cover since Tuesday. So, here is my latest attempt to capture the Twitter thread with links to stories.

• First, Mike Murphy has retired from the City of Charlottesville. Story from @nstoutDP (bit.ly/2YvExD8)
• The Albemarle Planning Commission voted 5-1 to recommend a special use permit for @MillerSchoolVA - story is from @craftypanda (bit.ly/2DW4imv)
• The @roanoketimes reports that a @RoanokeCollege poll found a majority of Virginians support some gun control efforts. @AJFriedenberger has the story (bit.ly/2rqfa9p)
• Roanoke County Supervisors voted to have that locality become a Second Amendment Sanctuary. Another story from the @roanoketimes (bit.ly/2sNzTEv)
• The @DailyProgress editorial from the December 4 paper supports additional Albemarle resources for the @CrozetFire volunteer department. (bit.ly/2RsLpQ4) Moving on to the December 5 paper.
• Kroger has agreed to pay a settlement related to allegations of misuse of controlled substances at the Rio Hill pharmacy. @Knott_Katherine has the story (bit.ly/2OZm1Qf)
• The Albemarle Board of Supervisors had a packed house on Wednesday from those seeking to support the Second Amendment Sanctuary. @craftypanda was there and wrote this story (bit.ly/2OZ6rnP)
• On Monday, Council voted 3-2 to send a special use permit application back for a 101' tall building on West Market Street. Details on @cvillepedia (bit.ly/2Rvdsy9)
• There's a guy who shows up at every Albemarle Board of Supervisors meeting insisting that climate change isn't real. To Charles Battig, it simply isn't happening. But a new study finds that predictions of warming made in the 70's were accurate. (bit.ly/2E26pFb) 
• On Monday, City Council voted down a proposal to require Council approval before Deputy City Managers are hired. The idea had been put forth from @NikuyahWalkerCC - story by @nstoutDP (bit.ly/33WLkH2)
• Thursday's @DailyProgress editorial addressed the issue of what role City Council should play in hiring for top positions (bit.ly/35131qa)
• On Wednesday, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors held a work session on additional professional firefighters. @craftypanda has that story (bit.ly/2OXyrrU) 
• Reading the paper every day exposes me to national stuff I don't usually read. Google's top brass stepped down this week at a time when the company is facing increased scrutiny. Story from the AP on A7 of Thursday's @DailyProgress (bit.ly/2roD8lx)
• D.C. Fontana, a woman who wrote for the original Star Trek and then the Next Generation, died this week. She took the initials so she could get work in a male-dominated industry. Read more about her in this AP story on A8 of Thursday's @DailyProgress (bit.ly/2YsRSft)
• On Wednesday, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors voted to approve rezoning for Galaxie Farm, one project from developer @nmscro - @craftypanda wrote this story on A1 of Friday's @DailyProgress (bit.ly/341d5OG)
• Another @nmscro project was in the news this week as she returned to the Places29-Rio CAC with a revised version of the 999 Rio Road development. @craftypanda has the story (bit.ly/2Pus5zs)
• A community meeting was held this week for a possible historic survey in Charlottesville's 10th and Page neighborhood. This had been delayed pending some concerns. @nstoutDP has this story on A1 of Friday's @DailyProgress (bit.ly/36eO8AU)
• The Biscuit Run property has been formally zoned as parkland, changing the land use for what had been slated to be a large neighborhood. @craftypanda has a third story in Friday's @DailyProgress (bit.ly/2Yqej4E)
• I am finally up to today's @DailyProgress and just read about UVA tuition increases and approval of a sustainability plan. The second half of this @nstoutDP story is about the latter, and it likely should be read by many of my followers (bit.ly/350fzOH)
• The way Charlottesville High School calculates grade point averages may be changed to exclude high school courses taken in middle school. @Knott_Katherine has this story in today's @DailyProgress (bit.ly/2Luruwg)
• A wrongful death lawsuit against the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail has been dismissed on a technicality. @TylerHammelVA has this story on A3 of today's @DailyProgress (bit.ly/2RvJmKU)
• More than 3,000 @Uber drivers and passengers were sexually assaulted in 2018, according to a report issued this week. This @AP story takes a look at the next steps. (bit.ly/340orCu)

This took about four hours to produce. I could have added more stories because there is so much to read everyday. My interest as a member of our community and our world is to make sure information gets out there. I spent years writing stories about local land use issues in Albemarle and Charlottesville and now I am advocate for certain policies.

I do this work to keep myself up to date, and to get a sense of what I need to do in my advocacy.  This effort at taking these tweets and turning them into a blog post is part of my ever-evolving quest to make sure people know what's going on.