Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

I hope I never have to use it. But if I do, it may make the difference between life and death for me and my family.

a new beginning for this region and for this company.

The most important thing, ... is that you share Oregon?s commitment to our environment in creating sustainable communities and industries that will deliver success today with respect to preserving our quality of life for the future.

I have to reinvent myself.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.