Dear <<First Name>>,

Today marks the hundredth day of my administration, and I’m pleased to report significant progress on my top priorities:

1. Getting Oregonians back to work.
2. Transforming public education to deliver better results and more resources.
3. Transforming health care to improve care and reduce costs.

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Day 1

My first act as Governor set in motion a number of immediate job creation measures – and I’m proud to report that over 13,000 new Oregon jobs have already been created this year.

Day 17

The first stop on our Rebuild Oregon tour: I traveled to Pendleton and Ontario to launch a new solar array and visit Oregon companies like Hill Meat Company. Creating 25 jobs in Umatilla County has the same impact as 500 jobs in the Portland metro region.

Day 23

With an economy severely impacted by the recession, my balanced 2011-2013 budget proposal sets us on a course to fundamentally shift our state’s investment from addressing problems after they have developed to preventing them in the first place.

Day 33

The Oregon Education Investment Team kicked off its work to create an efficient, accountable zero - 20 education system that integrates early childhood success with K-12 and post-secondary education and training. Read the Op-Ed by 15 Oregon Superintendents.

Day 46

We launched the Grow Your Oregon Business web portal, an easy-to-use website to help local businesses grow and flourish.

Day 50

I traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Obama and members of his administration about transforming health care delivery in Oregon and then spoke at the National Press Club about our efforts to integrate and streamline Early Childhood Services in Oregon.

Day 60

Thanks in large part to our proposed balanced budget, Oregon's credit rating was upgraded from AA to AA+, allowing the state to issue bonds at a lower interest rate, saving Oregon millions.

Day 62

Senator Merkeley and I toured Brookings Harbor in southern Oregon to survey damage from Japan’s devastating tsunami and worked with local, state and federal partners to secure the dollars necessary to quickly fix the damage and get the harbor back up and running.

Day 64

The second leg of my Rebuild Oregon tour took us to Central Oregon to see how businesses like Kialoa Paddles have been able to cut their lead time – and boost their business – with help from the state and Business Oregon.

Day 74

The Oregon Senate voted to require Oregon schools to offer free full-day kindergarten starting in fall 2015 (SB 248).

Day 75

Oregon experienced the fourth-highest job growth in the country, adding 9,800 jobs in February, the state's biggest increase in 15 years.

Day 81

The Joint Special Committee on Health Care Transformation was formed, charged with drafting a transformative health care bill.

Day 86

My first testimony before Oregon’s Legislature urged support for a key element of the plan to transform education: establishing the Oregon Education Investment Board (SB 909) to create an integrated, efficient and accountable education system linking early childhood learning to K-12 and post-secondary education.

Day 88

Health care reform began to gain some momentum – and The Oregonian’s Bill Graves explains exactly what I’m trying to do here.

Day 92

I went to Helman Elementary School in Ashland to launch the Cool Schools Initiative so we can put Oregonians back to work doing energy efficiency upgrades in schools that will also put money back in the classroom and create a healthier place for Oregonians to teach and learn.

Day 94

I lay out my 10-year Energy Plan with one central question: Will we shape the coming clean energy investment and development or will it shapes us? Oregon is well-positioned to build on our leadership in the clean energy economy and create family-wage jobs across the state in energy efficiency, clean tech manufacturing and renewable energy.

Day 95

The Senate Health Care Committee unanimously approved the Oregon Insurance Exchange (SB 99), creating a health care marketplace. This legislation will give more than 350,000 Oregonians access to quality, affordable health care and enable Oregon small businesses to provide coverage for their workers.

Day 97

Facebook opens its newest data center in Prineville, Oregon. The data center handles data for about half of the social networking website’s 500 million users.

Day 100+

There’s a lot of work left to be done, especially in the areas of education and health care. But as I said during my inauguration, “Somewhere in America a state needs to be able to demonstrate that we can weather this kind of challenge without losing our sense of community, without losing our commitment to one another, and emerge stronger and more united than where we began.”

Thank you, again, for a great first 100 days. Together we will make the next 100 just as productive, and put Oregon on the right course for a bright future.

John