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Portland Ban on Daytime Camping

Mayor Ted Wheeler is planning to ban daytime camping on city property, including sidewalks and parks. It’s not significantly different from past city policies, though it’s unclear if the consequences will be different for violating the new law when it’s approved by City Council. Beaverton already has a similar prohibition against daytime camping in place. [Willamette Week]

Candidate Allegedly Linked to Christian Nationalists Loses

After a Rolling Stone article on his alleged links to Christian nationalists, former deputy sheriff Derrick Peterson withdrew from the race for Portland Public Schools’ board, reentered, and withdrew again before losing on Election Day. Retired teacher Patte Sullivan won despite raising no money and earning few endorsements — at least before the Rolling Stone story. [Oregonian]

Suburbs Reject Conservative School Board Candidates

Suburban school board candidates that were backed by groups pushing for book bans or opposing sex education lost their elections. Hillsboro and North Clackamas, as well as Canby, voted against the conservative school board candidates. [Oregonian]

Nuclear Lesson from the Pacific NW

Jan Haaken, a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at Portland State University, directed a documentary called “Atomic Bamboozle.” She talked to the City Cast Portland podcast on lessons from the Pacific Northwest’s nuclear past and a new struggle to stop the production of next-generation nuclear power — small modular reactors. [City Cast Portland 🎧]

• Related: NuScale Power, based in Tigard, is leading the way on the next generation of nuclear power plants. [City Cast Portland 🎧]

Vanport Walking Tour | Sunday | 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

As part of the 2023 Vanport Mosaic Festival, Flood Safe Columbia River discusses the story behind the devastating 1948 Vanport flood, and what's currently being done to upgrade flood control. [Free but reserve your spot, Delta Park]

Secret Roller Disco | Today | 7 - 9 p.m.

This week’s party on wheels is in a high school parking lot, and the theme is “cute.” [Free, Madison South]

Chasten Buttigieg in Conversation With Carrie Brownstein | Saturday | 2 p.m.

Buttigieg, husband to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, has released a young-adult version of his memoir of growing up gay in a small Midwestern town. [Free, Pearl District]

Warnings Against a Nuclear-Powered Future in the PNW

The Pacific Northwest has a long and complicated history with nuclear power. The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington was part of the Manhattan Project, which also created the bombs for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And right here in Oregon, sits the remains of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. Here in 2023, NuScale Power, a Portland-area company promises a brighter future and cleaner energy source in the form of small modular reactors (SMRs). Host Claudia Meza speaks with Jan Haaken, a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at Portland State University. She’s made a documentary called “Atomic Bamboozle” that draws from lessons of the past to address a new struggle to stop the production of SMRs in the Pacific Northwest.