PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: A day after the resignation of Ron Tomalis, special adviser to the governor on higher education, calls continued Wednesday for investigations into whether he was a “ghost employee” and into the state Department of Education’s email retention policy.
Officials of Fresh Start PA, a political action coalition that supports the candidacy of Democrat Tom Wolf for governor, called Tuesday for various state agencies to investigate whether Mr. Tomalis was a “ghost employee” who did little or no work for his $139,542 salary and to examine the email retention practices of the education department.
On Wednesday, Fresh Start chairwoman Katie McGinty continued to push Republican Gov. Tom Corbett for those investigations and for the firing of acting Secretary of Education Carolyn Dumaresq over public statements she made claiming education department employees delete and cleanse their emails each day… (more)
