Our coverage of high school graduation (we write about each graduation in the county every year) continues tomorrow with a moving piece by columnist Colleen Cason (ccason@VenturaCountyStar.com) about Barbara Meza, who is graduating from Community High in Moorpark. Barbara has had setbacks in her life that would make most of us just give up. She didn't. Look for the story on Page One tomorrow.

We will probably also run on Page One the vacation home story that we held from yesterday. Business writer Gretchen Macchiarella (gmacchiarella@VenturaCountyStar.com) tells us how Oxnard ended up No. 4 on the list of "hot spots" for vacation homes in the nation.

Ventura will be hosting a summit on childhood obesity on Friday. Staff writer Marjorie Hernandez (mhernandez@VenturaCountyStar.com) advances the conference and its goals.

Sacramento bureau chief Timm Herdt (therdt@VenturaCountyStar.com) is covering the budget talks in the Legislature today. This is the constitutional deadline for adopting the budget. But it won't happen. Again. And Timm will tell us why.

Off the wires, we're looking at follows to last night's tsunami warning in California, the hostage rescue today in Iraq, the decision by flu-vaccine manufacturer Chiron to cutback on next year's supply and NBC's hiring of football announcer John Madden from ABC.