Nike Spent More Than $900,000 to Beat Metro’s Multibillion-Dollar Transportation Tax

Nike Announces It Will Lay Off an Additional 200 Employees at Beaverton Headquarters

Despite dislocations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Nike’s stock price has flourished this year.

The Damage Trump Did 

In 2016, we thought President Trump would be bad for Oregon. He was a catastrophe. 

Opponents of Metro Transportation Measure Disclose First Wave of Contributions

Portland Animation Studio Laika Announces Mass Layoffs

Yet another Oregon institution and Knight family owned company has announced a major reduction in work force. Laika Studios will layoff at least 50 of its employees starting Sept. 1.

Watch Drake’s New, Sports-Star-Studded Video, Filmed on the Nike Campus in Beaverton

Rumors abounded after the rapper’s private plane—an $185 million Boeing 767, gifted to him by a Canadian airline who figured it’d be good publicity—was spotted parked at Portland International Airport. As expected, he was hanging at Nike headquarters, though he wasn’t just hanging in boardrooms: He was shooting a video for the first single off his new album. And he wasn’t the only star in attendance.

Readers Respond to Nike Layoffs in Beaverton

“Can Kate Brown stop giving these guys so many tax breaks?”

Two More Mass Layoffs Show the Depths of COVID-19’s Impact on Oregon’s Economy

Job losses on the Nike campus and at the region’s biggest airline continue Oregonians’ pain.