Good Morning, RVA: Use caution!

Use caution today when driving to work and when talking to Dallas fans.

January 12, 2015; 6:54 AM • by Ross Catrow

Photo by: megadem

Good morning, RVA! It’s 35 °F and rainy. Seems suboptimal, but temperatures are above freezing, so your morning commute should be wet, not icy. That’s something, right? However, VDOT–perpetual realists that they are–does still caution you to remain vigilant on your drive in.

Expect the rain to continue, on and off, for nearly the entire day, tapering off tonight.

Water cooler

The RTD has published their database of local government employee salaries for the fiscal year 2013-2014. You can poke around and see what some of your friends take home without having to ask them inappropriate questions.

Today’s the start of our 2015 fitness week! We’ll be talking to a bunch of local fitness all-stars who will inspire you to begin (or continue, if you’re ahead of the game) your fitness journey. It all starts with this pretty insane lululemon Great Fit Challenge. Blow your mind, change your life!

Birdman did not win the Golden Globe for best comedy, which is great since it is not a comedy. Here’s the entire list of nominees and winners.

Sports!

If you wish to remain conversant in office sportstalk today, you’ll need to watch this highlight (lowlight?) from the Dallas-Green Bay game.

The Squirrels have a new manager, the news of which, to you baseball fans, is probably a life-giving oasis in the midst of this long baseball offseason desert.

• #20 Rams downed the ever-flapping Hawks, 89-74, with some elite shooting.
• Spiders now ride a two-game winning streak after besting the Bonnies, 60-41.
• #3 Wahoos with a huge road win against #12 Notre Dame.
• Caps beat the Redwings 3-1, host the Avalanche tonight at 7:00 PM.

This morning’s longread

Look At This: Demolished

This NPR piece on the public housing projects of Chicago is a great experiment in using a user interface to help tell a story.

In the early ’90s, when Patricia Evans started documenting public housing, she had already established herself as a successful urban photographer. She had seen a lot while working in cities around the world. But when she settled in Chicago, she recalls, she was surprised by what she saw in that major American city: a place the rest of the city had seemingly abandoned.

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