This is the kind of news day that managing editors love. There's a lot to chose from for tomorrow's Page One. A plethora of news, if you will.
Some of the local stories are being reported and may end up falling off the list, or moving to the Local news section. Others are reported and written, but don't have quite the immediacy (as in, they happened today) so could get held.
Here's a look at what's in the mixer for the front page:

The SCAT board is holding its regular monthly meeting this morning. It's usually a session the press doesn't cover. But we'll be there today as they talk about what happened with the shut down of bus service and what they're going to do about assuring a supply of fuel in the future. Cheri Carlson (ccarlson@VenturaCountyStar.com) continues to be the lead reporter on this story. We'll also look at the bus operation today with limited service in the West County.

Opening arguments are today in the bid by law enforcement to get a permanent injunction against the Colonia Chiques gang in Oxnard. Court reporter Jessica Keating (jkeating@VenturaCountyStar.com) will be there as attorneys argue before Judge Frederick Bysshe on whether to extend the existing temporary injunction.

CIA Director Porter Goss is in the county this morning, giving a talk at the Reagan library. Stephanie Hoops (shoops@VenturaCountyStar.com) will cover the talk. Depending on what he says, it could be a Page One story.

Editors are assigning reporters as I type to follow up on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's bid to take his reform plans to the voters next fall. We'll see what, if any, opposition exists in Ventura County.

We still have available the story by Marjorie Hernandez (mhernandez@VenturaCountyStar.com) about the impact of the storms on farmworkers. The fields are flooded, the crops are gone. What happens to the workers?

And county government reporter Charles Levin (clevin@VenturaCountyStar.com) is at a meeting this morning where officials are talking about the future of the Senior Nutrition Program in the county.

All those are possible candidates for Page One, along with wire stories: President Bush demanded today that Syria get out of Lebanon; and gunmen in Iraq kill a judge and lawyer working for the tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein.

It's a plethora day.