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Hal Phillips: RiverWatch: Many expectations of the child welfare system largely miss the point

L.D. 2097 is a bill that would authorize and fund the hire of case aides — to lighten the load of caseworkers around the state by delivering documents, driving children to appointments, supervising kiddos in the office or hotels rooms overnight. When making the best of imperfect situations (in this case, an imperfect hiring situation), L.D. 2097 makes sense to me.

Posted inBusiness

Emerging markets topic of January Chamber breakfast

AUBURN — Tae Chong, a business adviser with Coastal Enterprise Inc.’s StartSmart Program, will be the guest speaker at the January Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The breakfast will be held at 7 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at the Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch. Chong’s topic will be emerging markets and an emerging workforce. StartSmart […]