Good idea. I can copy some stuff over.......

Dear god! Those are some homely looking [pictures] on that page!

Thanks Eric! Let's go to her bosses!

How many people heard about this?!?!?

Bee reporter faces pornography charge

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/749450.html

good activity here!

Has anyone checked out the birds eye mapping feature on live.com? I believe this is Ms. Hill's house when she lived in North Carolina up until a couple months ago...

Go here, click on Birds Eye, zoom in and click on East

Melanie Ann Sill
507 Devereux St
Raleigh, NC 27605-1501
(919) 828-6432

(The same info shows up for her husband's name)

Apparently Melanie Sill has changed the article several times on sacbee.com. Does anyone happen to have a copy of the original, or know what she has changed??

From another comment on sacbee.com:
You have changed & edited your four excuses for why the Bee posted this database at least twice & it's very obvious. Yesterday pm u added info about other states (those state's gov'ts are who posts the info, it's not posted by a tabloid newspaper such as the Bee) & again this am, it's a totally different article. In both yesterday's versions, your tone was very defensive & the facts u stated were inaccurate & not researched; this am, it appears like someone else with better writing & researching skills edited it for you & posted again. However, doesn't matter, yesterday's editorial is what did the most damage & just because you keep changing it (without acknowledging the change by updating the last posted by date which still shows 6:30 3/5/08 as last updated-ANOTHER LIE) doesn't mean you're going to get your subscribers back. Researching the facts NOW instead of BEFORE posting the story was very stupid on your part. Sorry, I don't read tabloid trash & that's what the Bee has become.

and another:
"In other states and counties, media organizations or other private companies have posted the information." This sentence is brand new. Either you have done extensive research overnight to get it or this is another untruth. Sorry, your history has proved you are not trustworthy. So you state the above, I ask that you prove it, name two other websites and provide links them just like you did to Georgia and Iowa - who, BTW, do not have a search engine based on individual names alone. One doesn't do names at all and the other does last names but only in connection with a specific department. Bad comparison on your part.

The Bee's circulation and revenue are down according to this, part of McClatchy's SEC filing.

2007
Daily: 270,697
Sunday: 312,706
Revenue: 211,035 (dollars in thousands)

2006
Daily: 283,561
Sunday: 323,271
Revenue: 254,741 (dollars in thousands)

I also saw someone report that Ms. Sill makes over $200k/yr, but I can't find that in McClatchy's Investor Relations section.

Anyone have an email address for someone at the State Controller's Office, possibly Chief Legal Counsel? Please PM me, don't post it here

Here's an interesting tidbit about Melanie Sill:

I see the Bee has hired Melanie Sill as their new editor. She was the guilt presuming columnist at the Raleigh News and Observer who wrote the infamous "We know you know" column at the beginning of the Duke non rape, non assault - lets hang the white boys hoax. Her inflammatory writing was instrumental in igniting the racial firestorm and to hell with due process ethic with which DA Nifong was able to perpetuate this criminal conspiracy. Only in the MSM could such incometance be rewarded with a promotion.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/11/is-the-sac-bee-.html

Yup..... I used zabasearch to find info on both Ms. Sill and her husband, including what appears to be a definite hit on their former address in NC. Nothing definite in CA yet. There is also spock.com, which, apparently, searches social networking sites. Nothing found there on either person.

This appears to be the Phillip Reese who wrote the article:
http://www.spock.com/Phillip-Reese-Xvstn13I
http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=phillip%20reese&state=CA&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=148645212


Phillip  Reese
Sacramento Bee
Staff Writer
2100 Q St
Sacramento CA 95816-6899 US
Phone: (916) 321-1137
Cell: (916) 321-1109

http://www.nbc10.com/more/15488724/detail.html

If you ever purchased Airborne (a cold remedy), you can get a refund
of all the products you ever purchased from them if you have their
receipts.  If you don't have a receipt, you can get up to 6 refunds!
That's 6x $10.50 free!

You can file an online claim at http://www.airbornehealthsettlement.com/faqs.htm

Bascially, a class-action lawsuit was settled and the drug was deemed
useless.  So, consumers can get their money back!

Here's a picture of Melanie Sill:


Phone: 916-321-1002

Email: msill@sacbee.com

ZabaSearch.com: http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=Melanie%20Sill&state=CA&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1 http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=melanie%20sill&state=NC&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1

Interesting link that mentions Melanie Sill: http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/111342.php

Husband: Bennett Groshong

Husband's ZabaSearch.com: http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=benneth%20groshong&state=NC&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1

Sill was born in Nebraska, Sill grew up in Waipahu, Hawaii, and is married to Bennett Groshong, a software developer and electrical engineer. She holds a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

I just posted a link here in the comments on SacBee.com. Let's see if we can get a better discussion going here without all the ignorant state employee haters.

This database is absolutely useless unless you are searching for a specific person, which is dangerous to provide. It also negates any reasoning you tried to relate in your response to our previous comments. The SacBee's response is full of empty comments and meaningless defensive posturing for the inevitable class action law suit. If you wanted to provide a real service, based on the topic of the article, you would provide totals per department, totals per classification, a way to search by department or classification and NOT REQUIRE NAMES in a database search!! There is absolutely no reason to do what you have done other than to spite state employees, those who keep California's infrastructure running.