Congratulations, you’ve made it to Wednesday…

Weather: Sunny and warm. That pretty well sums it up for today, Thursday and Friday, with highs in the lower 90s and nighttime lows in the middle 60s. Rain returns on Saturday.

Parking reprieve for downtown. If you’ve taken your car downtown to the Civic Center, the county courthouse or the new Uptown entertainment district, chances are you have parked in those spaces under I-20/50 at one time or another. ALDOT wants to close those parking spaces because the bridges above them are old, but they have given the city of Birmingham a brief delay until this time next week. After that, you’ll have to use one of the parking decks on the south side of the highway, or streetside parking and surface-street lots. (And good luck.) The parking ban will stay in effect until 2018, ALDOT says.

New city prosecutor for Kimberly. The city is hiring Jeff Hester, a Pelham attorney who has served as both prosecutor and judge — not at the same time, of course — in several Shelby County cities and towns.

More than coffee and donuts at stake. Remember on Monday how we mentioned that Burger King is merging with the iconic Canadian restaurant chain Tim Hortons, and moving the merged company’s headquarters to Ontario? Well, it’s not just because the BK folks like the coffee and Timbits donut holes that are so familiar in the provinces (and also much of the northern U.S.), but it’s also because Canada’s corporate tax rate is lower than it is in America. It’s called an inversion, a tactic several large corporations have used: merge with a foreign company and use that firm’s headquarters as the new home, to take advantage of tax benefits. It’s a practice President Obama has criticized, but Republican leaders say it’s a sign of Obama’s unwillingness to lower taxes.

Sports: Marshall’s the starter, sort of. Gus Malzahn has released Auburn’s official depth chart (see it here) for Saturday’s season opener against Arkansas, and Nick Marshall is listed as the starting quarterback — but he won’t be the first QB in the game for the Tigers, thanks to his recent brush with the law. Just when Marshall will replace Jeremy Johnson is not known. The game will be on the new SEC Network at 3 p.m. (Here’s Auburn’s official game notes, as well as the notes for the Razorbacks.)