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Our man in Baghdad
War talk," wrote Mark Twain, "by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is...
Home Channel News, 10/12/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication -
Home again in Bishop, Calif
Every yard has a story to tell. But few are as dramatic in recent years as that of Home Lumber Co. in the Eastern Sierras of Bishop, Calif. The...
Home Channel News, 10/12/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication -
Inside Do it Best's playbook: the co-op keeps focus on fundamentals
The hardware store business is a lot like football. And in difficult times, the business is a lot like old-fashioned, grind-it-out, smash-mouth...
Home Channel News, 10/12/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication -
Home improvement of the brave
Three little words and three capital letters--"Made in the U.S.A"--are having a big impact on the home channel. Of course, they always have. What's...
Home Channel News, 09/21/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication -
The next big thing? Manufacturers point to the advantages of making products in the U.S.A
Mark Gracy talks about his Steubenville, Ohio, factory like a proud parent. "We take raw steel coils on one side of our plant and ship out...
Home Channel News, 09/21/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication -
The first inning of a recovery
After another humiliating, hitless loss for the Bad News Bears (1976 version), Ogilvie the statistician pointed to the good news. For instance,...
Home Channel News, 08/17/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication -
Now for something 'completely different': in Tennessee, Cole's Home Solutions thinks outside the big box
When looking at the ambitious plans of what is soon to be Cole's Home Solutions in Millington, Tenn., an Orgill customer 15 minutes north of...
Home Channel News, 08/17/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication -
Long-term view lifts Carter Lumber
AKRON, OHIO -- There was some talk that given the current building environment for the housing industry, the annual Carter Lumber managers' meeting...
Home Channel News, 07/13/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication -
Beer cans and business lessons
Today's topic: beer cans. Like many kids in the 1970s--the decade when housing starts soared to their highest peak--I collected beer cans. One day,...
Home Channel News, 07/13/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication -
Distributors job one: keep on trucking
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Not many distributors will look back at 2008 as the glory days of two-step distribution. But a...
Home Channel News, 07/13/09 by Ken Clark · More from publication
