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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…
Jason James Barry
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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...
GPR Traveler
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SLC Tourney Journey | Breakfast With Coffee Edition at The Little American
Across from the grandeur of the Grand American Hotel on South Main Street in Downtown Salt Lake City sits the Little American Hotel, and...
GPR Traveler
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Tourney Journey | All CLOSED - A Weekend of Coffee Regret
I regret to inform you that Atlanta’s downtown coffee scene has its limits. And by that, I mean most all of the mom and pops and...
GPR Traveler
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Big South Tourney Journey | Coffee Edition
With some time to kill before volleyball today, with the internet in the hotel room not working, with my daughter having saved half of...
GPR Traveler
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Big South Tourney Journey — Food After a Flight Edition
Every leg of travel — from portal to portal — went surprisingly well. It actually went smooth, going to Atlanta, ahead of the Big South...
GPR Traveler
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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...
syZmc Commentary
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Las Vegas Tourney Journey (Coffee Hack Edition) | Special to Calinfluence
The convergence of a long drive in to Las Vegas (clocking in at 7 hours and 6 minutes from San Diego) + a late dinner (well after...
Calinfluence
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KC Volleyball Tourney Journey - Not a First-Timer (Anymore) | Special to Calinfluence
The trick to a successful journey is figuring out where the hell it is you’re going. And in my return to Kansas City, I’ve been enjoying...
Calinfluence
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KC Volleyball Tourney Journey — Lunch Edition | Special to Calinfluence
Mildred’s, For Breakfast at Lunch: Day 2 in Kansas City brought a late start, but a full day of volleyball games. The team convened in...
Calinfluence
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The Stop Past Death Valley — Primm, Nevada | Special to GPR Road & Travel
If you’ve ever made the drive to Las Vegas from parts of California — your foray sent you through a vastness of desert. And invariably,...
GPR Traveler
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Escaping Vegas (Breakfast Edition) | Special to GPR Road & Travel
Sometimes, which seems to be too often, there is always a drag, some pull, that leaves you wanting out of Las Vegas. Everything costs...
Jason James Barry
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Kohberger: Comparisons to a Serial Killer
There is the impulse to compare suspected murderer Bryan Kohberger to reputed 1970s serial killer Ted Bundy. As facts bear out, we may...
Jason James Barry
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More Than Just About Kohberger’s Hands
A great deal of focus has been placed on vehicle stops by police to view murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s hands days before his arrest—...
Jason James Barry
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U of Idaho murder suspect in custody: Where the case goes now
A man is in custody for the Idaho college murders — but the devil will be in the details to nail down a conviction. Authorities in...
GPR Editorial
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The Harm in Trading an Arms Dealer
Thank you, covert negotiators. You’ve traded Viktor Bout. I want to believe there’s wisdom there, some even deeper deal afoot within the...
Jason James Barry
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Letting Viktor Bout Escape
The indictment and charging papers, now all an open book since Viktor Bout’s arrest and subsequent conviction, read like a script for an...
Jason James Barry
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Calinfluence Review: Buonasera New York Pizzeria
The rumors had circulated that fabled “great pizza” existed somewhere along the lagoons by Torrey Pines State Beach. So went a Sunday...
Calinfluence
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Phan Anderson Claims Victory in SDUHSD Election
Phan Anderson, First Time Challenger, Defeats Incumbent Julie Bronstein SAN DIEGO – The Phan Anderson for School Board campaign claimed...
GPR News
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A Writer's Quip: On Adding to the List of Rejection
I doubt that the editor I was emailing could write the way I do. But that wasn’t his job. His was to see if I could write the way they...
Jason James Barry
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