Anthony Effinger

The Cora Center is closing its doors, becoming the latest in a line of psilocybin “service centers” to shutter as revenue from guided mushroom trips fails to cover business costs. Cora, located on Northeast Broadway and 27th Avenue, will host a “closing g... See more

Multnomah County plans to shut a homeless shelter run by Sunstone Way, one of the county’s largest contractors, at the end of March. The county announced the plan in June, but a memo obtained by WW indicate that the closure may have come as a surprise to ... See more

To end 2025, we assigned each reporter in the WW newsroom to pick two stories by a colleague that stood out in 2025. We then had the recipient of the compliment pass it on—but not before penning an update to the tales. Here’s the first of these stories. “... See more

The doughnut hole strikes again. In its latest forecast, Metro, the tri-county regional government, said its Supportive Housing Services levy would raise $351 million in the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2026, up 8% from $325 million from the year-earlie... See more

To end 2025, we assigned each reporter in the WW newsroom to pick two stories by a colleague that stood out in 2025. We then had the recipient of the compliment pass it on—but not before penning an update to the tales. Here’s the first of these stories. “... See more