We aren't happy about the high price of gasoline. But we seem resigned to it ... and to the price continuing to climb. Reporters Stephanie Hoops (shoops@VenturaCountyStar.com) and Zeke Barlow (zbarlow@VenturaCountyStar.com)talked to some of you filling up your gas tanks today with the highest-price gas Ventura County has ever seen. Those comments, along with an explanation of where prices are going, reported by Jim McLain, (jmclain@VenturaCountyStar.com) will be the main Page One package tomorrow. It will be illustrated by a graphic from graphics editor Brian Snyder and his department.

Also on the page will be local reaction to the ongoing controversy surrounding Harvard President Lawrence Summers' remarks concerning brain differences in men and women. Reporter Kim Lamb Gregory (kgregory@VenturaCountyStar.com) has that story for us.

Then, off the wires, we will carry stories on the congressional hearings about steroid use in baseball, the latest on the various legislative efforts to intervene in the scheduled removal Friday of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, and testimony before Congress by CIA Director Porter Goss who said he could not guarantee that the CIA did not use torture in interrogating prisoners since 9/11.
We also discussed possibly putting on Page One the wire story on the budget debate in Congress where the Senate voted to strip its budget of Medicaid spending cuts, which the president wanted and the House says it needs to balance the budget. That story, as of now, will go to an inside page instead, bumped off by the Goss testimony. Basically, we reasoned that the budget debate has a ways to go before it is resolved while the Goss testimony moved that story forward.