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AFFLUENT EARS: Ralph Nader, the consumer rights...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Davan Maharaj
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AFFLUENT EARS: Ralph Nader, the consumer rights advocate who’s blasting Congress over the bad-check scandal, brings his gospel to Saddleback College in Mission Viejo on Friday. Nader’s speech was booked more than a year ago and Nader has told the college only that he will discuss “consumer issues.” But the college’s Joyce Hanna says, “Whatever he says will be relevant to Orange County, since we’re known as an affluent bunch of consumers.”

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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.

Davan Maharaj

As editor of the Los Angeles Times Media Group from 2011-17, Davan Maharaj oversaw the largest daily newsgathering organization in the West.

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