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>> Super PACs in D.C. elections? That’s what Chuck Thies says will happen if District voters pass Initiative 70 this year. The ballot proposal would bar corporations from donating to candidates in local elections. Instead, Thies says, corporations would just funnel their money to third-party expenditure groups similar to the ones active in national politics. And with yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down a Montana law aimed at controlling corporate political expenditures, it would be totally constitutional here.

>> The District could lose 10 percent of its federal highway funding if it doesn’t bring its code governing billboards up to date, City Paper reports. And, hey, D.C.’s only 47 years behind schedule, having never brought its local standards in line with the 1965 Highway Beautification Act, which regulates outdoor advertising along federally financed roadways.

>> The teenager arrested last weekend in connection with a pair of animal-slashing attacks at Virginia’s Frying Pan Farm Park allegedly used a machete, the Post reports. Wonder if he texts.

Briefly Noted: Reston Zoo director says she euthanized that dead wallaby … Former Baylor basketball player arrested after alleged extortion scheme targeting Robert Griffin III … International Space Station flew over D.C. last night … Usurped U.Va. President Teresa Sullivan could get her job back today … 17,000 waiting to get into D.C. charter schools … Maryland Live!: It’s for kids.

This Day in DCist: Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for prison inmates to be forced to stay overnight rather than be released after 10 p.m. In 2010, our man in Johannesburg went to the World Cup.