Our town names may have been inspired by foreign locales, but not necessarily their pronounciation.
Riverwatch
Hal Phillips: Cassette-tape revival? Hipsters need a primer on what they’re getting into
One must have achieved a certain age in order to remember cassette tapes and what made them so special. But that doesn’t mean we should consign their fascinating 20th century narrative to the dustbin of history.
Hal Phillips: RiverWatch: Educating yourself for the rigors of late capitalism? Learn to learn
We products of the liberal arts vocationalized ourselves as members of the workforce, serially, according to need, preference, circumstance, opportunity and our willingness/ability to shift gears.
Hal Phillips: RiverWatch: Sprint vs. marathon: For Harris and American voters, less may prove more
The Democratic Convention has come and gone. Yet nothing feels rushed. Both tickets are still in our collective faces every day.
Hal Phillips: RiverWatch: What good is polling? Survey says: Let’s ban it
How often do you answer a call from a phone number not identified as being in your contacts list? Yeah, me neither.
Hal Phillips: RiverWatch: Scholastic no-drinking pledges are ethically sticky, even when fairly applied
My kids are out in the world but the graduation parties keep coming. I attended my first of the 2024 season on Mother’s Day — over to Jean Street in Lewiston (well done, Maddy!) — and it surely won’t be the last such engagement this spring. And yet, without kids in a school system, one […]
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.
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 […]