The death of Terri Schiavo is the top story of the day. We will look, in our coverage for Page One tomorrow, to provide the news and sufficient perspective. We'll also have a complete back file available online of past stories. This, of course, is a story that has been anything but undercovered, so we are currently wrestling in the newsroom with what ... if any ... local perspective we can add to the story today that is meaningful. Any ideas? Any story angle you would like to see reported?

The other major package for Page One tomorrow will be an advance on the opening of the Major League baseball season. Afterall, as of this writing, the first pitch of the season is only 78 hours and 43 minutes away. Approximately. Sports writer Rhiannon Potkey (rpotkey@VenturaCountyStar.com) is talking to local fans to see if the steroid scandal has tainted the game, or their love for it. We're planning to run the story tomorrow because the three-game Freeway Series, the exhibition games between the Angels and Dodgers (both Los Angeles, now), begins tomorrow night.

The winds are stirring things up around the county today and bringing things down. Staff writer Marjorie Hernandez (mhernandez@VenturaCountyStar.com) is checking out the weather and wind damage for a possible Page One story.

The other wire story of interest at the morning meeting was the report by the presidential commission harshly criticizing the nation's spy teams for their failures before we launched the war on Iraq.