Year two, day one isn't going so great for Gov. Corbett

The first day of year two isn't going so great for Gov. Tom Corbett.

Gov. Corbett received even more negative attention for a disgraced high ranking official who was forced to resign over controversial statements he made about women:

Is Tom Corbett Running a State or a Circus? (Philadelphia Inquirer) The Corbett administration quickly accepted Patterson's resignation after my colleagues began poking around. No one would say why such a luminary was hired for a six-figure state post, but let's not forget that Alexander himself has had an, er, notable tenure.  The DPW chief seems to see his job as punishing the poor, booting more than 150,000 people -- including 88,000 children -- off medical assistance and imposing an asset test on Pennsylvanians who receive food stamps.  While I'm thinking about it, Corbett also made a curious choice in his health commissioner Eli Avila, he of the badge, jacket and super-sized ego.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-blinq/Is-Tom-Corbett-running-a-state-or-a-circus.html
  
Pa. officials will not release other aides' resumes (Philadelphia Inquirer) In the wake of controversy over the professional background of one of its high-level welfare advisers, the Corbett administration refused Wednesday to release the resumés of other top aides in the Department of Public Welfare who help set social and health policies for the state.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120119_Pa__officials_will_not_release_other_aides__resumes.html

... Now conservatives are questioning Gov. Corbett about the resignation of the disgraced aide:

Corbett's officials' departure initiates questions (Tribune Review) Conservative supporters of a controversial top official who resigned from Gov. Tom Corbett's administration wondered on Wednesday whether he was forced out because of his conservative views.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_777315.html#ixzz1jwBAoy1o

And a new report found that Gov. Corbett's administration slashed science funding:

Changing Priorities: Science Funding Slashed Under Corbett Administration (State Impact PA) Mem­bers of Penn­syl­va­nia Gov. Tom Corbett's admin­is­tra­tion rou­tinely insist their Mar­cel­lus Shale drilling pol­icy is based on science.  But doc­u­ments obtained by StateIm­pact Penn­syl­va­nia, as well as inter­views with more than a dozen peo­ple who work both inside and out of state gov­ern­ment, high­light top-level deci­sions to dimin­ish or defund drilling-related sci­en­tific research in the com­mon­wealth. Sci­en­tists say the decline in government-funded research dur­ing the first year of the Cor­bett Admin­is­tra­tion leaves open ques­tions about how ani­mals, wildlife and the cli­mate are affected by Pennsylvania's drilling boom.  Emails and inter­views show Cor­bett appointee Richard Allan, who serves as Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion and Nat­ural Resources Sec­re­tary, over­saw sig­nif­i­cant changes to a state sci­en­tific research pro­gram and removed projects exam­in­ing the impact of nat­ural gas drilling and cli­mate change from a rec­om­mended fund­ing list.
https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/01/18/changing-priorities-science-funding-slashed-under-corbett-administration/