Downtown employees wept limply over the weekend, after the site Food Carts Portland put two and two together, and realized the surface parking lots the Oregonian had reported are being offered up to developers currently hold some of the city's best cart pods. It's rough news, but unavoidable. Portland reporter Michael Andersen has some reassurances though—he notes development of these lots will take years (there are no current plans) and that Portland's not just going to cast aside a crown jewel of its kick ass food scene.

Southeast Portland's Bullseye Glass isn't the only company stopping use of certain heavy metals officials fear are seeping into the city's air. A smaller outfit called Uroboros glass has stopped infusing its products with cadmium.

If you missed it, Mayor Charlie Hales' office unveiled several new policy proposals it says will ensure the city's rationally handling a homeless populace forced to sleep outside for lack of shelter and housing. Officials will experiment in formally allowing people to sleep on the sidewalk and set up tents on certain public land (between 9 pm and 7 am). The city will also formalize a process for creating homeless camps, and even maybe purchase pods for people to stay in.

Meanwhile, KGW reported on eight North Portland neighborhood associations that are upset over the mayor's willingness to allow camping. In doing so, the station visited the Forgotten Realms camp at N Kerby and Graham. One thing KGW left out? The neighborhood association where Forgotten Realms sits, the Eliot NA, has welcomed the campers and offered to help any way it can.

It's presidential primary day in New Hampshire! Polls say Bernie Sanders (for sure) and Donald Trump (probably) will win, but you miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. Who knows what'll happen?

Requisite Harney County Occupation News: Papa Bundy's coming to town!

Also, the Eugene law firm representing former occupation leader Ammon Bundy is facing some heated questions, after OPB reported last week it had actively sought to help occupiers before they were arrested, then conveniently got tapped for some fairly costly legal work when the feds moved in. Some say that's contrary to Oregon Bar rules.

Scoop: It's possible for kids to fall out of shopping carts. More than possible. It actually happens.

One of the more influential positions in Portland's vast bureaucracy is about to be up for grabs. Patrick Quinton, the director of the Portland Development Commission, is stepping down. The PDC has been a primary instrument for transforming neighborhoods like the South Waterfront and Pearl District, and is working right now on some big-time projects (doing away with the enormous US Post Office in Old Town, transforming Lents). Whoever takes over for Quinton will have a lot on their plate. The O has a solid rundown of his tenure.

The Washington legislature's talking about the Columbia River Crossing again. No indications Oregon lawmakers are on board, though.

The Portland Loo's about to have Ivy League cred, whatever the hell that's worth.

Need to offload some potentially E.-coli-tainted grub? Good news: Teens.

Sure it's enraging and terrible, but the situation with Flint's water supply—though perhaps an outlier in terms of scope and the possibly criminal bungling by government—also isn't all that uncommon.

How are things going in DC? Well the budget committees in both houses of congress, controlled by Republicans, are declining to even give President Obama's proposed budget a hearing for the first time in more than four decades. So pretty well!

Your (my) work overlords are shameless criminals for asking you (me) to come in today.

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