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Habitat for Humanity's ReStore carries the kind of building supplies you'd expect plumbing parts, electrical wiring, doors and windows of every description, gallons of paint, bathroom cabinets and toilets galore. Habitat is a faith-based nonprofit organization that helps low-income residents buy homes with a zero percent mortgage.
MINNEAPOLIS - Watch enough television and your mind can feel like it's dissolving into liquid cheese. Thank goodness for those magic moments, the ones that make you proud to own a TV rather than being deeply ashamed. Even though the 2011-12 season was less than inspiring, I found 10 reasons this winter and spring to celebrate:
As the public joined the frenzy around Facebook Inc.'s Wall Street debut, well-connected institutional investors were hearing a more sobering message: The social network's main business, advertising, was sputtering.
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, May 24: