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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...

A Time, Unblinkingly, To Follow The Facts

Special to Great Pacific Review | By Jason James Barry Police go where the facts and evidence lead. They need to. They can’t sidestep...

The Harm in Trading an Arms Dealer | Jason James Barry

Thank you, covert negotiators. You’ve traded Viktor Bout. I want to believe there’s wisdom there, some even deeper deal afoot within the...

Letting Viktor Bout Escape | Jason James Barry

The indictment and charging papers, now all an open book since Viktor Bout’s arrest and subsequent conviction, read like a script for an...

Colonoscopy: (Not) The Sum of Your Fears | Jason James Barry

First off, there was no sadistic laughter. And no haunting or horrifying flashes of memory. No Farrah Fawcett-scene out of the movie...

At 50 | Jason James Barry

So goes time, and it’s gotten to be even odds that I’ll snap awake now for no reason. Sometimes so early that I have the time to settle...

Chesterfield Road | Jason James Barry

The Why: A preface to the Chesterfield Road essay. The why. The question that comes when I dredge it all up, and now, after so long. For...