Email Author Beth Barrett

Awards

• 2011 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published October 14, 2010

  "Barry Minkow 2.0"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published October 14, 2010

  "Barry Minkow 2.0"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published February 11, 2010

  "Dance of the Lemons"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 11, 2010

  "The Dance of the Lemons"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published October 14, 2010

  "Barry Minkow 2.0"

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2010 Stories by Beth Barrett

• Hollywood Farmers Market Dispute Mushrooms Into Land-Use War

  published December 23, 2010

  The Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Avenue is safe until mid-April under a moratorium hastily hammered out between the market... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Barry Minkow 2.0

  published October 14, 2010

  A quarter century ago, a brilliant L.A. punk named Barry Minkow built a carpet-cleaning business worth hundreds of millions of... More >>

• The Vision of Michael LoGrande

  published August 5, 2010

  Los Angeles Planning Director Gail Goldberg, who resigned July 16, had envisioned creating a citywide blueprint of best-case... More >>

• The Curious Case of Karen Bass

  published July 1, 2010

  Karen Bass may never have been further from her nonprofit activist roots than when she returned home from Sacramento and her... More >>

• On the Backs of Children

  published May 13, 2010

  Two years ago, when Principal Tim Sullivan, who saw educating inner-city children as his life's work, walked onto the Markham... More >>

• Insiders Versus Charters at LAUSD

  published March 11, 2010

  Next year, almost 40,000 children will be detached from the Los Angeles Unified School District, their 30 schools turned over... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  LAUSD's Dance of the Lemons

  published February 11, 2010

  Editor's note: After this article went to press, LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines announced that the district plans to substantially cut... More >>