"A little thin," Managing Editor Rich Luna said at our morning news budget meeting. That would be a good thing in many of our lives. But the reference was to the local news budget. That's not a good thing.
It's Monday morning in the news world and, as is the case on many Mondays, there's not a lot of news percolating.
Yet.
Here's what we're looking at for tomorrow's Page One:

It should be a good day to get into print the story we've been holding for a few days on the suggestion by some in Ventura to not clean up the storm debris from the beaches to create a natural habitat for birds. Ventura city reporter Kevin Clerici (kclerici@VenturaCountyStar.com) has that story.

Simi Valley reporter Teresa Rochester (trochester@VenturaCountyStar.com) will be covering a public forum tonight hosted by the ACLU where school and community leaders will talk about the racial and cultural conflicts that have been erupting in our county.

There was a disagreement on a SCAT bus over the weekend involving a disabled passenger. We're looking into the reports and getting both sides ... it may be a Page One story. It may not even be a story at all. We're checking it out.

Reporter Zeke Barlow (zbarlow@VenturaCountyStar.com) will write about a study being released tomorrow that is highly critical of the training given to education leaders in this country. He'll talk to local educators to get their take on the report.

Off the wires, the massive rally in Beirut looks to be the top of the news along with follows on the courthouse shooting in Atlanta.