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Jason James Barry
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Not Terror, Not True. Did the FBI Try Punting About Terrorism in New Orleans For Politics?
In the early stages of event unfolding, a truck plowed through a crowd of New Year’s revealers, followed by a police shootout with the...
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Jason James Barry
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Why I Voted For Obama, and Trump
In 2008, voting for Barack Obama was a clear decision to me. At the time, America was emerging from two-terms of George W. Bush, Ground...
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Jason James Barry
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Why California Likes Harris, Not Trump
Like it or not, out here in SoCal your family and mine qualify as coastal elites — owning million dollar properties just minutes from the...
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Jason James Barry
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The Where Were You Day
I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...
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Jason James Barry
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Blame it on Reno: A NoCal Volleyball Tourney Journey
Nothing throws off an ambling wanderer like being stuck, isolated in a hotel. Welcome to Grand Sierra Resort, the place that doesn’t want...
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Jason James Barry
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SLC Volleyball Tourney Journey — Dinner Redemption After Crappy Concession
A day of girls volleyball wins on-court at the Salt Lake City Showdown was met with lackluster convention center food fare. Cutting to...
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Jason James Barry
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Vegas Tourney Journey — Stuck in Line at a Starbucks Edition
Special to Great Pacific Review - by Jason James Barry Why do the simplest things never work out so simply? Of course I‘m talking about...
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The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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Four Years Gone By: A Pandemic Retrospective
Notifications came from school. Early pick-up. And then, none of us knew what was next. That whole week, I had been stocking up and...
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The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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Memes, With Trolls Waiting to Pounce
There was a time, not long ago, when someone said something in passing and said it to an actual person — and that essentially was that....
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GPR Editorial
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The MLK Dream Revisited
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr… The need for his words rings truer and louder now, in times when divides by race have been grasped and...
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Buzzard Digital
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Crime Notes (and trying to impress girls) — Inside a Police Memoir
a Buzzard Digital interview with author Jason James Barry Buzzard Digital: You wrote a police memoir, “The Midnight Coffee Club: A Memoir...
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The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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An Arrest of a Cop
Twice now, and more so, I’ve been made privy to old friends or past co-workers who’ve been under arrest. The most recent was a “now...
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The Longview Essays | Jason James Barry
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Our Affinity For Arguing About Gun Violence — While Avoiding Why
The gun violence problem people have been talking about — when did ours begin? I’ve asked this out loud and to myself in the wake of the...
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Jason James Barry
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Mike’s BBQ - Escondido - A Sports Bar That Specializes in Ribs
Reviews on Yelp said the food was “hit or miss.” We were in the mood for barbecue. We were pass through Escondido. So we decided to...
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Buzzard Digital
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Unscripted Consequences of the Writers Strike
In case you didn’t notice, for the better part of 140-some-odd days there’s been a writer’s strike. I actually think it's over. The...
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Jason James Barry
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The Where Were You Day
I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...
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GPR Traveler
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A Tale of Two Coffee Locations: Peet’s in Encinitas vs Solana Beach
Is a bad cup of coffee considered an existential crisis or a petty first-world problem? I think the former. Or is it the latter?...
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Buzzard Digital
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A Police Investigation: Glimmers of an Old, Cold Case
When I started looking into some of my father’s old police cases, I didn’t expect to get pulled in so fully, the same way I think he did....
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Jason James Barry
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A Cold Case Revisited — The Disappearance of Janette Reynolds
In the summer of 1978, a teenage girl from Eastern Connecticut disappeared while hitchhiking home toward Jewett City. The disappearance…
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GPR Traveler
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SLC Tourney Journey | Coffee Destined for Trash... and Then Redemption
The coffee odyssey in Downtown SLC has been troublesome. The Coffee Shop at the Little American was a bust (see full review). And the...
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