Ron Kaye resigns post as editor of Daily News

I am always saddened bu something like this.

This guy may have been a crack editor, but he was also a crackpot.

Under his leadership, the LA Daily News took myriad shots at the large government agencies that rule the valley, Some of the shots were legit. Most weren't.

The boring, repetitive attacks on LAUSD are a perfect example. The constant whining about downtown LA redevelopment is another.

Like the boy who cried wolf, the LA Daily News blew its credibility by inventing spooks.

Thanks to the Daily News, Valley residents have a 101 freeway that's too narrow, Orange Line that is a bus route instead of rapid transit, decentralized and ineffectove school district, etc.

"LA Man Bites Valley Dog" - apocryphal Daily News headline, and maybe an epitaph for the Kaye era.

Good luck and good health Ron. Skip the cigarettes. Thank you for all your efforts to keep local news and politics in the spotlight. Whether people agreed with you or not, at least they had a chance to be informed. Democracy needs not only a free press, but one which is willing to speak out. I sure hope the Daily News doesn't lose its voice as the L.A. Times has. Godspeed.

John McNary,

You have a problem with the press watching Big Brother Bureaucracy? I have to take that as an indication that you work in government and don't like the scrutiny because the bureaucracy has been sticking it to the taxpayers for decades with little accountability. Sorry, pal, even without Kaye, the Internet is the latest technology to ensure that taxpayers get a fair and honest return for our excessive taxes. The scrutiny will continue and continue at and extent that you bureaucrats only dream of in your nightmares.

John McNary,

You are obviously a government hack. I can see you right now sitting at your computer keyboard - bloated belly below your elbows, cheap suit jacket hanging behind you, beer on your breath. A miserable soul, too aware of your uselessness.

Who else but a government slacker would complain about someone pointing out how inept LA city govt. is? From the schools, to the DWP, to the gang ridden streets, to the fools who ask for 40 hours of peace, our government has failed us!

The insane are running this asylum. But Ron Kaye - unlike the LA Times editors who chose to make excuses - actually pointed out our city government's flaws.

Mr. McNary, you wonder what gave you away?

You wrote: "The boring, repetitive attacks on LAUSD are a perfect example. The constant whining about downtown LA redevelopment is another."

Who but a hack would find our school system acceptable enough to think anyone who complains about it is boring?

Please!

Ron Kaye, you will be missed.

"You are obviously a government hack. I can see you right now sitting at your computer keyboard - bloated belly below your elbows, cheap suit jacket hanging behind you, beer on your breath. A miserable soul, too aware of your uselessness."

I can tell that Opinionated Chick has had the displeasure of meeting a few government management slackers because she described them perfectly. If McNary is union blue collar I'd describe him as, "Sitting behind the shared union office computer with a miserable hangover while he's supposed to be out working, earning double time because his drinking buddy called in sick from his own hangover, taking the time to surf away from the kiddy porn and do some whining and complaining about how taxpayers don't pay enough for his proud uselessness and angry that the Daily News has the "gall" to expose him and his fellow union sissies."

The Daily News needed to stop whining about development downtown which benefits the whole City and tell the City to stop wasting money on useless programs. All of the money spent on gangs and other social programs is money that is wasted. Government should take care of the basics Police, Fire, traffic and schools. Everything else is a waste of money. I don't want my tax dollars to pay for the poor. Hell most of them aren't even legal residents. If we didn't give the poor so many handouts maybe they would leave and go somewhere else (that is what is happening in Arizona).

Kaye billed himself the Voice of the Valley, which is kind of divisive, since this city isn't really "valley vs. city" but more like, legal middle class residents vs. the illegals we're forced to subsidize as our city has inevitably suffered the financial meltdown this situation entails. It's not about whether we "like" or not "the other," but strictly a financial and socio-economic shift that's been catastrophic: masses of poor people with little or not education and huge families, have come into this country and displaced the natives as they've taken over and collapses our infrastructure: schools, clinics and hospitals, roads (notice how quiet it is when there's Cesar Chavez day or two years ago when 500,ooo illegals marched on May Day?), our very neighborhoods.

Even those of us old-timers who own our homes in "nice" areas but are on fixed incomes, are fed up with all the taxes and decline in quality of life, which gangs have come right to our own streets. My kids can't afford to live in town and raise kids here, and it's not the price of homes, which are as high elsewhere: it's the cost of private schools, congestion, high auto insurance thanks to illegals with none, and general quality of life.

We hardly even have any cops in our area, burglary is way up but we pay most of the trash and Prop S taxes to try and control gangs in other areas. We plead in vain to deport illegal criminals at least, to repeal SP40, as the beat cops want.

Some cross the border just to have anchor babies and I'm not a radical or racist, neither are those beginning to wake up: "Immigration Nation" is a series on CBS by Katie Couric next week, warning us, maybe too late, about what's been happening.

It's sad all the families with kids are either in beach communities or the west valley -- the only folks having kids around me are older and wealthy. Now, Mr. Reyes is offering to build low-income projects here in Bel Air to "make up" for our having fewer kids around here -- the reason they're all gone is become the illegals have pushed them out of our schools and made them feel unwelcome. Now, my kids and grandkids can't live nearby, but a bunch of illegal immigrants' kids are to take over their birthright? Everyone is so up in arms about some buildings on Wilshire or Ventura Blvds., that they're missing the really scary things being talked about more and more.

Sure, the official city policy is, if old geezers like me don't like it, we can leave, too. e they can take over our homes by eminent domain and aze them for projects, like after the Communist revolution. Some of these people may as well be taking a playbook from Hugo Chavez of Venezuela or Castro in the 50's. The Daily News and Kaye were among the only people to speak out for "us," the people.

Too bad Dean Singleton doesn't care about the city or community, any more than Zell who bought the L A Times does: they're outsiders stripping down our newspapers and firing good people for profit.

Finally, the overpaid hack crawls out of the valley rag after causing many of the underpaid staff to loose their jobs.
The editorials under this joker were sadly myopic and predictably weak minded. Yet he raked in $200,000+ as he pink-slipped his underpaid staff.

If he ran the Daily News like an honest news business instead of his private platform for his petty agenda he wouldn't have been shoved out the door!

Times: I guess in your Marxist view of the world a newspaper should be run by the State Department of Propaganda?

This is another example of forcing a quality person out of a company in favor of medicrity and the bottom line. The newspaper should be ashamed and if they have to cut quality for the bottom line, then maybe they shouldn't be in the newspaper business in the first place. I am boycotting the paper and telling everyone I know to do the same. They will do that no doubt about it. This is the direction of newspapers and true journalism and real journalists. What a pity for the DN and for all who knew Ron Kaye. A major loss. The owners and publishers should pay in circulation.

what a ridiculous comment to make and ill informed. Kaye was put out the door because he DID NOT want to give "pink slips" to the employees - you shouldn't write what you don't know about. Some people just like to talk to see or hear their own voice mouthing off.

Ron Kaye was nothing more than an overpaid hack who USED the DN for his own rants and created division and diversion where there was none. A Newspaper Shock Jock only wishing to rile for his platforms.

HE WILL NOT NOT NOT BE MISSED...except by those in the "newspaper bed" with him.

Ron was not only the voice of the valley, but the voice of many hard working Angelenos who are concerned by the failures of City Hall to protect them from overdevelopment, ever higher taxes and DWP rate hikes, poor schools, and a deteriorating infrastructure.

I hope it does not stop the other editors from watching the government. Remember a few years ago, the Daily News was the only paper that I know of that published the secret salaries and benefits that our heroes, the firemen, had been paid plus overtime that ran in the $200,000's each for one year compensation for several L.A. firemen. Of course it changed nothing. But know we have diversity. . .new editor Garcia will attract the Latino population as new subscribers.

Gwen wrote:

Ron Kaye was nothing more than an overpaid hack who USED the DN for his own rants and created division and diversion where there was none. A Newspaper Shock Jock only wishing to rile for his platforms.
HE WILL NOT NOT NOT BE MISSED...except by those in the "newspaper bed" with him.

As a DWP IBEW whiner and propagandist, you're an expert on overpaid hacks. When the DWP is sold to Edison, you won't be missed either.

Don Ber wrote:

I hope it does not stop the other editors from watching the government. Remember a few years ago, the Daily News was the only paper that I know of that published the secret salaries and benefits that our heroes, the firemen, had been paid plus overtime that ran in the $200,000's each for one year compensation for several L.A. firemen. Of course it changed nothing. But know we have diversity...new editor Garcia will attract the Latino population as new subscribers.

I fully agree. If the press doesn't expose the truth about government corruption and inefficiency -- including the bilking of taxpayers by civil service union slugs -- the citizens have very little chance of getting at the truth behind the union propaganda that's always aired on television or by their union hack brothers and sisters at the LA Times.