Josh Shaffer

GA reporter and columnist for The News & Observer who has crisscrossed NC for 20 years in the same pickup truck. Eager to profile eccentric and quixotic heroes.

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@Wisdom_HQ Two

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@TheFieldOf68 That's like ringing a big old karma alarm bell.

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@nckhui Peace, Keung. Holding you in our hearts

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@nckhui Peace to you and your family, Keung. Thinking of you

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Did anyone hear the sirens from the Harris nuclear plant today? Would like to know what they sound like.

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@RaleighReporter There's a crazy taxidermy museum there, which isn't everybody's cup of tea, but it's bizarre enough to be entertaining.

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@JohnStatonSN Congratulations. I hit my 20 this year, too.

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@will_doran Are we sure it's real? Waiting for confirmation...

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@modsoftoday No Dancing

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@Komaniecki_R Kokomo, The Beach Boys
Bittersweet Symphony, The Verve
Mony Mony, Billy Idol

[LeVelle Moton @LeVelleMoton]

This Missed Free Throw changed the lives of so many individuals. So much is different if this shot goes on. In years to come, it will be known as “The Shot Missed Around the World “….

[Seth Davis @SethDavisHoops]

DJ Horne crying for joy is what March Madness is all about.

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@GratefulDead Not Fade Away

[Roy Cooper @RoyCooperNC]

Historic ACC Tournament run for the Wolfpack resulting in a well deserved championship. Congratulations are in order.

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@dawnbvaughan @newsobserver Sadly, this was the place where nobody could hear anything and we were totally lost

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@joeovies @giglio_OG Betcha O'Connell banks in a three at the buzzer. If I win, we switch sweaters.

[Colin Campbell @RaleighReporter]

If you're the one Libertarian primary voter in Tyrrell County, it's now a public record that you voted for Toad Anderson #ncpol

[Andrew Carter @_andrewcarter]

“Same amount of points as how old he is,” Harrison Ingram just told us of Cormac Ryan’s 31.

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Armando Bacot was so emotional tonight, after his final UNC home game, he even teared up when thinking about his regular postgame sessions with the media. He always sits in the same place, and gives thoughtful answers. He fought back tears and said this, of his five years at UNC: