Long before the declaration of Independence, Norman Washington Manley spoke sadly about one of Jamaica’s major hindrances to progress. He said it was not the shortage of ideas, but the lack of both ...

“It used to be a common occurrence that you would fix things,” says Katherine Hayes. “Joe down the street would fix your toaster, and Emma could mend your jeans.” At Fixity, she’s on a one-woman ...

The success of Hennepin County's Fixit-It clinics has prompted a company east of the Mississippi to do likewise. Fixity is a small St. Paul business founded in 2011 for the purpose of giving people a ...

A chara, – The situation where an increasing flow of families and individuals are being made homeless or mired in poverty because of escalating rents is a scandal of shocking proportions. It brings to ...