Commentaries Archive


David Daggett: Lifelong Big Brother

Posted February 4, 2025 By Triad Today
Attorney David Daggett

When attorney David Daggett commits to something he goes all in, whether it’s a commitment to family, clients, or athletics. His exploits as an Iron Man competitor are legendary, and so is his support for numerous charities and organizations, ranging from the Down Syndrome Association to his signature Safe Sober initiative, now in its 35th year. […]


Soiled Elections

Posted January 21, 2025 By Triad Today
ballot box

As sometimes happens, two seemingly unrelated news stories get reported on the same day, yet when taken together they are revealed to have a lot in common. That’s what happened last week when we finally got to see Jack Smith’s report on his derailed prosecution of Donald Trump, while concurrently we learned about a Forsyth […]


Piedmont Triad Deserves a Casino

Posted January 7, 2025 By Triad Today
Gaming machine in a casino

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for interstate commerce, but for the life of me I can’t understand why, when it comes to trade between North Carolina and Virginia, it always has to be a one-way highway. During Prohibition, for example, North Carolinians had to drive across the state line to buy liquor. Later in the […]


A Felon in the White House

Posted November 12, 2024 By Triad Today
Donald Trump in prison stripes

If you drive the get-away car for a bank robber, you are considered to be an accomplice because you aided and abetted the robber. That means you face the same liability and culpability as your friend who physically entered the bank and robbed it, and, likely as not, you will face the same punishment. Last […]


Robinson, Morrow, Green on Triad Today

Posted October 29, 2024 By Triad Today
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Candidates for Governor and State Superintendent of Public Instruction will be interviewed on a special voter education edition of Triad Today this weekend. Appearing during the half hour will be Democrat Mo Green and Republican Michele Morrow who are running to become North Carolina’s next Superintendent of Public Instruction. Morrow is a registered nurse with over […]


Robinson and the Trump Base

Posted October 22, 2024 By Triad Today
Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina

According to a WRAL-TV poll from early September, Attorney General Josh Stein and Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson were locked in a virtual tie to become the state’s next governor. But a not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the election. Stein saturated the airwaves with anti-Robinson ads, some of which took Mark’s words out of […]


Brightspeed: All Circuits are Busy

Posted October 8, 2024 By Triad Today
The logo for Brightspeed, turned into a frowny face

Over the past five decades, I’ve always tried not to use my television shows or columns to address a personal grievance. That would be self-serving. Besides, nobody wants to hear about my problems anyway. There is, of course, an exception to this rule. If I have a problem that also affects thousands of people, then […]


Mary McCormack Pens Book About The West Wing

Posted October 1, 2024 By Triad Today
Cover of the book What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service

When first arriving in New York City as a struggling actress, Mary McCormack accepted a strange part in a strange play: “It was a musical in a tiny theatre near Columbia University. The show sucked and I still don’t know what it was about, but it ended with me in a chair, dead, with a […]

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When Jim Longworth began his broadcasting career in 1970, most people only had three TV networks to watch. There was no Paramount+, Hulu, or Netflix. There was no such thing as DirecTV, and less than 10 million households even had cable. What folks DID have was a plethora of local television programs to watch. There […]


ATV Laws Must Change

Posted September 10, 2024 By Triad Today
ATV accident survivor Tyler Hughes

Six years ago, then-13-year old Tyler Hughes, of Clemmons, got on his ATV and proceeded to speed along a snowy, curvy road. The ATV flipped over on him and the roll bar severed his left arm. Tyler’s mom quickly applied a tourniquet to her son’s arm and surgeons were able to re-attach the limb. A […]


Murder She Wrote Turns 40

Posted September 3, 2024 By Triad Today
Angela Lansbury in 2007

Something delightful happened in the fall of 1984. On Sunday night, September 30, at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, CBS premiered Murder She Wrote, a light-hearted drama series about Jessica Fletcher, a widowed mystery novelist who helped Cabot Cove law enforcement solve murder cases. For 12 seasons, the show was comfort food for hungry viewers, and a […]


Consolidated Plea Deal is Criminal

Posted August 20, 2024 By Triad Today
Aquavis Hickman

TV crime shows often depict plea deals as a method of catching a murderer by offering less jail time to an accomplice in exchange for his testimony. Seldom, however, do we ever see plea deals offered to the main criminal himself. After all, why make a deal with someone you’ve already got dead-to-rights? Yet that’s what […]

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