Oregon has a new minimum wage. We're just not completely sure what it is yet. After hours of fractious debate yesterday, the Oregon House passed a proposal for a three-part system that would see Portland's minimum wage rise to $14.75 in 2022, while other areas of the state saw smaller raises. It's a big huge deal, and Gov. Kate Brown says she'll happily sign the plan—or another reasonable plan that emerges.

Republican lawmakers weren't the only ones howling over the wage decision yesterday. Demonstrators pushing for a statewide $15 minimum and reforms to the state's housing laws set up a makeshift camp outside the capitol, and yelled a bunch in Senate and House chambers—inspiring specters of mass shootings and being pelted with projectiles for Senate President Peter Courtney, who was almost unbelievably shaken by the site of a boisterous demonstration.

In case you missed it, the Portland City Council looked yesterday like it would vote on whether to move homeless camp Right 2 Dream Too to the Central Eastside. Then Steve Novick stepped in. The commissioner cited vague questions he had about the plan—questions he wouldn't elaborate on to reporters—and asked that the vote be delayed til next week.

Meanwhile, a couple other developments in the city's homeless strategies. The city and county are moving forward on a promised study into how they might consolidate the services they offer the homeless. That office would be under the authority of the Multnomah County chair.

And Mayor Charlie Hales is considering allowing homeless Portlanders to sleep inside city-owned parking garages.

More than two weeks after concerning air quality results were announced in Southeast Portland, the Oregon DEQ is officially cautioning neighbors of Bullseye Glass—as well as North Portland factory Uroboros Glass—not to eat anything they've grown in their gardens. You know, on account of the probable carcinogens.

Also: Mayor Charlie Hales and County Chair Deborah Kafoury sent a letter about the unfolding controversy yesterday. They're telling Kate Brown to either get the DEQ into shape, or they'll look into setting up their own air monitoring authority.

When authorities in Eastern Oregon were trying to effect a swift arrest on armed militants last month, Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer radioed in to ask what the deal was. No one wanted to tell him. Palmer had been labeled as a sympathizer/mole among his colleagues. That's one of the things that shines through in a host of official complaints against the sheriff.

Remember that home deconstruction requirement on old homes we wrote about? City council approved it earlier this week.

Oregon poured hundreds of millions of new budget dollars into its public universities last year. No matter. Tuition hikes!

The NYT has a new tool that shows how much hotter world cities were in 2015 over the average. Portland? 3.2 degrees above normal, with five new records set.

RIP: Harper Lee. Sorry about all that weird stuff with the new book.

Happy Friday. Now let's all cloister ourselves from the gloom and wait for Monday.

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