Commentaries Archive


Phones Should Be Excused from School

Posted April 16, 2024 By Triad Today

Educators, health professionals, and the media are all abuzz about “The Anxious Generation,” a new book by noted social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In it, Haidt concludes that smartphones are causing massive harm to young people and are stunting their mental and academic growth. According to Haidt, it didn’t take long for smartphones to have a […]


WFMY’s Larry Audas Signs Off

Posted April 9, 2024 By Triad Today

Larry Audas is a natural-born broadcaster. In fact, I suspect that a boom microphone and TV monitor were suspended above his baby crib. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Larry grew up in the Chicago area, and later graduated from Bob Jones University with a B.A. in — you guessed it — “Radio & TV Production.” Afterward, […]


NBC Makes Brief, but Shameful Hire

Posted April 2, 2024 By Triad Today

Television networks have been broadcasting nightly news programs since 1948, and while the length of those programs varied, they all had one thing in common — a sense of journalistic integrity in which anchors and reporters presented factual news of the day without personal comment or opinion. Certainly programs like “Meet the Press” and “Face […]


Dangerous Nut Jobs Hope to Run Our State

Posted March 26, 2024 By Triad Today

Much has been written about the mental health of Donald Trump, including a book by over two dozen leading psychiatrists who concluded that Trump is a dangerous, sociopathic narcissist (for example, just last week Trump said, “If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath in this country”). In “The Dangerous Case of […]


Political Parties: Three’s a Crowd?

Posted March 19, 2024 By Triad Today

Despite the dominance of America’s two-party system, our history of Presidential elections is replete with minor party candidates who challenged the front-runners, and, in some instances, directly affected the outcomes. Such was the case in 1912, 1992, and 2016. 1912 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt ascended to the Presidency in 1901 when William McKinley was assassinated. […]


The Sick Leave Dilemma

Posted March 12, 2024 By Triad Today

When it comes to communicable diseases, Americans seem to catch everything except a break. For nearly four years we struggled to prevent and deal with COVID-19, and just as we thought we had the deadly virus under control, the CDC reports that nearly 1 in 5 Americans who had COVID now struggle with chronic “Long […]


Physician Assisted Suicide an Unalienable Right?

Posted March 5, 2024 By Triad Today

In our Declaration of Independence, we Americans are guaranteed certain rights, including the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, the Founding Fathers said nothing about our right to die. Loosely interpreted, though, one could assume that “pursuit of happiness” inherently includes the right to end our own suffering. The problem is […]


Congressional Candidates on Triad Today

Posted February 27, 2024 By Triad Today
Triad Today logo

Five Republican candidates for Congress in the new 6th district will be interviewed on Triad Today in a special voter education episode which will air this Saturday and Sunday. There are six candidates registered for the March 5 Republican primary. Pictured left to right, they are: Christian Castelli, a combat veteran and business owner; Dr. Mary Ann Contogiannis, a plastic surgeon; […]


HanesBrands Sticks It to Us Again

Posted February 20, 2024 By Triad Today
The front of HanesBrands headquarters building in reverse color

Earlier this month HanesBrands announced that it was eliminating another 159 jobs in Winston-Salem. The key phrase here is “another.” That’s because, over the past 14 years, the once great community-oriented company has been about the business of decimating our community. In 2006, HanesBrands employed nearly 5,000 people in Forsyth County. That was the year […]


Remembering Joe Dudley

Posted February 13, 2024 By Triad Today
Joe Dudley

Joe Dudley grew up in rural North Carolina, living in a small house with his ten siblings. His pronounced speech impediment prompted Joe’s first grade teacher to label him mentally retarded, and he was held back. It would be the last time anyone would hold Joe back. Within 20 years he had founded one of […]


Suicide by Social Media?

Posted February 6, 2024 By Triad Today
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to members of Congress

Like most folks, I have suffered personal loss. I lost my parents many years ago, and I lost a number of very close friends who left us way too soon. But I’ve never been a parent, so there is no way I can possibly know what it is to lose a child. I can, however, […]


Rigged Elections

Posted January 23, 2024 By Triad Today
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America used to be the envy of the world because of our unwavering commitment to the ideals and practice of democracy. We used to be able to boast that ours is truly a representative form of government. But that boast is no longer credible. That’s because, over the past 20 years, the two-party system has […]

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