Investigating NEPA

THREE DIFFERENT GOOD BYES   Clay LePard left WNEP this week for a reporter position with the CBS TV station in Orlando.   He joins our former colleague at WNEP Matt Petrillo, and my former teammate at WTSP in Tampa, Ginger Gadsden.   Clay was at WNEP for about two and a half years, and made his mark.   He showed a great deal of insight and leadership in reporting AND helping put together team coverage on that rogue weather blimp that floated across parts of our viewing area in 2015, and the flash flooding in Sullivan and Lycoming counties last year.   Those were some of this station’s best days in news, or as a former news director once said, “we made epic television.”   He was an innovator, a unique individual, knew instinctively how to incorporate social media with news, and was the only person I’ve ever worked with that had a prep school education from the North Shore of Massachusetts (like me,) and then a degree from Syracuse University.   It is not