Coming up

• There’s a story in the system right now everyone is calling hippo_saks. A Rosauer’s in Browne’s Addition has been bagging with Eco-Hippo plastic bags - advertised as stronger than the average bag and made with recycled resin. The first time someone said “hippo sacks” out loud during the 4:30 meeting, a night-shift copy desk wizard said, “Hippo what ?”

• Doug Clark’s column for tomorrow: “His eight-minute quest for the perfect Christmas tree,” said city editor Addy Hatch. “Took him eight minutes.”

• There was some debate about tomorrow’s placement of the lawsuit story, a piece of which is online right now . The argument for more prominent placement: If the story has a lot of context and news value. The argument against prominent placement: If it’s just another ‘lawsuit-has-been-filed’ story because lawsuits are filed every day.