It's graduation day at Ventura County's three community colleges. We will be covering each graduation (as we do nearly all graduations in the county) for tomorrow's editions. Packaged with the graduation stories we're still trying to put together the look at the impact on the college budget from the revised state budget plan announced last week. We know that community colleges statewide are to get more money; we just don't know how much is coming here, and how it will be spent.

It's Day 1 of the Star Wars phenomenon. We're talking to people who went to the opening day showing of the blockbuster and see if the movie is living up to all the hype.

And staff writer Sylvia Moore (smoore@VenturaCountyStar.com) talks with members of the local base closing task force to find out their plans for combatting the personnel cuts recommended by the Pentagon for Naval Base Ventura County.

Of the wires, we continue to watch the rancorous debate in the Senate over judicial nominees, the continuing debate in Washington over cracking down on steroid use in professional sports and the latest out of Iraq.