Kate Brown became Oregon's 38th governor Wednesday morning, and we rounded up the coverage here. A team from The Oregonian/OregonLive provided live tweets, stories, photos, videos and more from the Capitol in Salem throughout the day.
Find more stories and images at OregonLive.com of the inauguration and Gov. Kate Brown's administration, along with all the developments in the John Kitzhaber-Cylvia Hayes controversy.
Here's the roundup of the day's coverage from The Oregonian / OregonLive:
6:27 p.m.: Kate Brown shows Capitol camaraderie as she assumes Oregon governor's office: After Gov. Kate Brown finished her inaugural speech Wednesday and began to leave the House chamber, she stopped to hug a Republican state senator. As the new Democratic governor embraced Jeff Kruse of Roseburg, she asked him, "Do you still want the money?"
"Absolutely," replied Kruse, who said he knew just what she was talking about. The two once worked on a foster-care bill costing about $20 million that they couldn't get through, and now he said it looked like he had a new shot at it.
6:08 p.m.: Kate Brown's deputy, Robert Taylor, takes over as Oregon's acting secretary of state:Kate Brown's deputy, Robert Taylor, took over as Oregon's acting secretary of state when Brown was sworn in as governor Wednesday. Taylor will manage the day-to-day responsibilities until the new governor chooses a more permanent successor, secretary of state spokesman Tony Green said. That will include planning and overseeing the elections, auditing public spending and serving as the state's chief archivist.
4:13 p.m.: Kate Brown inauguration: Watch the day's videos: A team from The Oregonian/OregonLive was in Salem for Wednesday's inauguration of Gov. Kate Brown, who took the reins from John Kitzhaber. The team produced videos, among other coverage. I've rounded them up here and provided links to stories if you want more information.
3:14 p.m.: Cylvia Hayes fighting order to release her emails: Former Oregon first lady Cylvia Hayes declared Wednesday that she will go to court to block a state order requiring her to turn over emails related to her public service. Portland attorney Whitney Boise, representing Hayes, notified The Oregonian/OregonLive and the state Justice Department of her intent to sue in Marion County Circuit Court. By law, Hayes now has seven days to sue The Oregonian/OregonLive.
3:02 p.m.: Records law reform might fly in post-Kitzhaber environment: Gov. Kate Brown's inaugural vow to make Oregon's public records more quickly and easily available might in normal times be fighting words to the public agencies that spend hours and considerable dollars complying with those requests. But the growing John Kitzhaber-Cylvia Hayes influence-peddling scandal may have changed the landscape in Salem.
Sang Dao is the only one of more than 14,500 Oregon prisoners to receive clemency from Gov. John Kitzhaber on his last day in office.
3:17 p.m.: John Kitzhaber granted clemency to gang shooter who made good in prison: Here's more on the man who former Gov. John Kitzhaber granted clemency. Kitzhaber met Sang Dao, who is serving a 12 1/2-year sentence for two Portland shootings, including one at a car with a baby inside, on his last full day in office, one of Dao's supporters told The Oregonian/OregonLive. That was the same day Kitzhaber decided to set Dao free next month, cutting short Dao's sentence by at least 3 1/2 years. Dao is the only one of 14,567 Oregon prisoners to be granted clemency by Kitzhaber.
1:23 p.m.: John Kitzhaber personally worked to stop ethics investigation, newly disclosed emails show: Former Gov. John Kitzhaber personally worked to stop the ethics investigation of fiancee Cylvia Hayes a month before he publicly professed full cooperation with that investigation, according to newly-disclosed emails. The emails come a week after The Oregonian/OregonLive first reported that Kitzhaber's legal team was trying to blunt the ethics case against Hayes.
12:33 p.m.: It turns out that Gov. John Kitzhaber did in fact commute an inmate's sentence: Later Wednesday, state officials confirmed that Kitzhaber commuted the 12 1/2-year sentence of a man convicted of attempted murder. Sang Dao, 25, who had been scheduled for release in 2018, now will leave prison March 17. It wasn't clear why Kitzhaber decided to act. The Associated Press initially reported the decision
12:20 p.m.: Governor Kate Brown's bisexuality draws national commentary : New Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is the first openly bisexual person to lead a state, and that biographical fact has attracted lots of attention from national sources that include major media outlets -- Slate, for example -- and political groups, such as the Human Rights Campaign.
8:36 a.m.: One lonely protester is outside of the Capitol this morning.
7:18 a.m.: Steve Duin: Kate Brown didn't recognize John Kitzhaber's phone number or his bizarre behavior: Was there also an element of opportunism for Kate Brown in her statement? Nonsense, Brown says: "I issued the statement because I thought it was important for people to know the truth. I had no clue what was going to happen, based on the last 36 hours of dealing with the governor.
"His behavior and his story were very hard to comprehend. I didn't want to be caught up in any lies."
One protester outside the Oregon Capitol in Salem.
7:15 a.m.: Federal subpoena of state justice department over Kitzhaber-Hayes scandal is unusual, significant: The federal grand jury subpoena demand for Oregon Department of Justice documents on the dealings of Gov. John Kitzhaber and his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, is unprecedented and unexplained. It could net interesting documents in part because before the state justice department started investigating Kitzhaber, its attorneys provided advice to the governor as well as agencies on sensitive legal issues.
5 a.m.: Kate Brown says she will present proposals for 'immediate reforms' to restore faith in government: Secretary of State Kate Brown said Tuesday that, after being sworn in as governor on Wednesday, she will "lay out a series of immediate reforms needed to restore the public's faith in government." She also said in a statement that she will "discuss her bipartisan approach to helping Oregon's working families make ends meet."
Tuesday, 8 p.m.: Kate Brown takes Oregon governorship with a daunting to-do list: The Democratic governor-to-be said in a statement Tuesday that she would announce "immediate reforms" in response to the ethics scandal that led to the downfall of Gov. John Kitzhaber. And she also said she'd discuss her "bipartisan approach to helping Oregon's working families."
With those broad strokes, Brown hopes to start setting a new tone in a state Capitol still reeling from Kitzhaber's resignation just two weeks into the legislative session.
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Monday: Will Kitzhaber empty death row? Oregonians anxiously wait as governor's resignation looms : Although the governor hasn't said whether he plans to commute the sentences of all 34 inmates on death row before he leaves office, a few factors might encourage him. John Kitzhaber is clearly angry. His political career appears over. And with seemingly little for him to lose personally, he might feel more likely to act on his longtime frustration with the death penalty as one of his final acts in office.
Tuesday: Kate Brown's spouse has his own work, far from his wife's political career: Dan Little, the husband of Secretary of State Kate Brown, has typically stayed far from his wife's political career, and there's been no indication from the Brown camp that this will change much when she becomes governor. Little, 55, is a veteran U.S. Forest Service data expert whose job is more technical than political. Friends say he is an avid outdoors man. He and Brown married in 1997 and live in Southeast Portland. They have two adult children from Little's previous marriage.
-- The Oregonian/OregonLive