RE: The story about exploding tennis balls, the question was whether it was a candidate for the front page. Some of the factors, according to the news budget summary:

• They were found at an elementary school and at least one child touched one.
• There was more than one tennis ball, and they were small homemade bombs.
• They were casually transported from one place to another when nobody knew what they really were
• They were not big enough to level a city block, deputy city editor Dan Hansen said at the meeting, but they could injure someone. More details are coming.

You have us convinced, said senior innovation editor Carla Savalli. Story goes front page tomorrow.

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