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LESS BAD: Does everything seem twice as...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Dean Takahashi

LESS BAD: Does everything seem twice as expensive as it did a few years ago? Take heart. According to a Chapman University survey (D5), the price of raw materials used by local industries is rising more slowly. . . . And that often means the price of the finished product from the factory won’t be quite as expensive. Even better, says Chapman, it’s a sign the local economy is perking up.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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