That's our story for the day: the impact of the base closing and realignment recommendations on Naval Base Ventura County. The base isn't closing; but it's going to end up losing more than 2,000 jobs. Economists tell us that kind of direct job loss leads to an indirect loss of another 2,000 jobs. We have reporters pulling all this together as we speak. The story's are already online. And today we sent a reporter and photographer to China Lake, where many of our jobs will be relocated. That story will appear in Sunday's Star.

Also tomorrow, we'll have the story on the county's plan to add a five-story medical clinic to the Ventura County Medical Center. We should have this exclusive story on the website by early afternoon.

Our Thousand Oaks city reporter Grace Lee (glee@VenturaCountyStar.com) continues to follow the resignation of City Manager Phil Gatch. She'll report tomorrow on the financial package Gatch will receive when he leaves.

And ... in other news ... as they say ... today Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger will announce his revised budget proposals. We'll have the details tomorrow and what it means for us.

There are slow news days. And then there's today.