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Gasoline prices create rough road for mobile small businesses

Gasoline prices create rough road for mobile small businesses

It's more night than morning when Jimmy Pastor pulls his blocky 1961 Chevy milk truck out of the Santa Ana parking lot for his delivery run,...

 
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Bathrooms are getting bigger, better and more important to buyers

Builders are responding to buyer demand for en suite bathrooms, free-standing tu...

Builders are responding to buyer demand for en suite bathrooms, free-standing tubs and closeted toilets, Lauren Beale reports from a model home in Brea.

Inviting a Wal-Mart into Florence-Firestone

Inviting a Wal-Mart into Florence-Firestone

The little tortilleriatortilleria, hidden away in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood near Watts, could be mistaken for a...

Think chocolate can't get any better? These Willy Wonkas beg to differ

Think chocolate can't get any better? These Willy Wonkas beg to differ

Meet the new Willy Wonka: Timothy Childs is a former space shuttle technologist who's building a 29,000-square-foot chocolate factory on...

Time bank takes root in Echo Park

ANE CRABTREE, a costume designer and stylist, was on location in Bulgaria when a professional chef e-mailed to say she'd be happy to give...

Tote-bag firm Gigi Hill is thinking bigger

It started with a $10 tote.

A formula for expanding successfully

Gabrielle DeSantis-Cummings and Monica Hillman are on the hunt for about $250,000 to quickly expand their small company, Gigi Hill, which...

SBA wish list seeks rules reform

For many small-business owners, it can seem as though federal bureaucrats do little more than churn out reams of mind-numbing regulations...