The folks over at KERA 90.1 have just learned that they won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in video, in the large-market radio division. This is a big deal. As soon as Krys Boyd opens the phone lines today during her Think show, everyone should call in and congratulate the station. Here’s the video that won the award:

When I saw that the schedule promised an appearance by NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre and a pajama party, I knew I had to check it out.

The Young Women’s Leadership Summit, put on this year in Dallas by right-leaning nonprofit Turning Point USA, brings together high school- and college-aged conservative women from all over the country. This year, the invite-only conference drew more than 1,000 to the Hyatt Regency near DFW International Airport.

It’s an interesting time to be a conservative young woman. I wondered who they followed on Twitter (spoiler: Ben Shapiro). I wanted to see what kind of young person would choose to spend a summer weekend in a hotel talking about politics. I wondered how they felt about supporting a president who’d been criticized for being anti-women, who had once bragged about sexual assault. I wondered how they felt about the Women’s March, and whether they worried about things like the gender wage gap and restricted abortion access. Most of all, I was curious if being a conservative woman meant ignoring women’s issues.

Cop Who Killed Jordan Edwards to Face Grand Jury on Unrelated Gun Matter. Roy Oliver was arrested in April on a murder charge for killing 15-year-old Edwards. But two weeks prior to that, a woman claims, Oliver pulled his gun on her after she rear-ended his truck. A grand jury will decide tomorrow whether Oliver should be charged with assault.

Dallas County Comes up $13 Million Short on Tax Revenue. Dallas County overestimated how much money it will get from property taxes. Now budgeting is going to be tricky. Today the commissioners will discuss Judge Clay Jenkins’ idea to cut the tax rate, a move that suddenly looks a whole lot less likely.

Rep. Victoria Neave Was Pretty Lit. She crashed into a tree on June 6, but her blood test results just came out. She had a BAC of .15, nearly twice the legal limit of .08. 

As was suggested last week, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board has called a special meeting tomorrow so that it can approve the issuance of debt to fund the Cotton Belt light rail extension. Over the weekend, former Addison city manager wrote in the Dallas Morning News about the importance of the Cotton Belt line for the regional system. He framed the issue, as well as Dallas City Council’s pending appointment of new DART board members, as yet another urban vs. suburban fight over the future of DART.

It is not. I will try to explain why.

Oddly, the Dallas Morning News has not reported about the special meeting scheduled just days before the Dallas City Council is set to completely revamp its representation on the DART board, even though the op-ed clearly reflected what is at stake in the naming of new DART board members. A major shift in policy towards how the city governs the region’s public transit system — and the transit system board and staff’s response to such a change — is part of a story that has been developing since last fall, when the city council kicked-off one of its members after he refused to follow the city’s resolution to prioritize the D2 subway line over and above the construction of the Cotton Belt. Now, that same board is poised to lock DART into a situation in which it has no choice but to build the Cotton Belt even though funding for the D2 line looks increasingly in jeopardy.

Regardless, here’s where we are:

• Saturday’s march — organized by Mothers Against Police Brutality and Faith Forward Dallas, among others — began at St. Paul UMC in the Design District and wound about a mile through Uptown, before ending at Pike Park.

• Or the park formerly known as Pike Park: as the Rev. Dr. Michael Waters said once the marchers arrived, “We’re taking the park back today.” Activist John Fullinwider — who said the quote in the headline of this post — rededicated it  as Santos Rodriguez Park, named for the 12-year-old boy killed by Dallas police officer Darrell Cain in 1973, not far away from there. The rededication was unofficial, but I don’t seen any reason why the city shouldn’t make it permanent.

• It was the morning after Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted in the killing of Philando Castile and the second anniversary of the shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church. But timing-wise, the more important date was Father’s Day. “This Father’s Day is really hard for me,”said Odell Edwards, the father of Jordan Edwards, the unarmed 15-year-old killed by Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver on April 29. “Every time I look at my kids and my family, I see the hurt in their eyes and I try to be strong for them.” He said he can’t sleep.

Starring Don Quixote, Don-key Beach, and Don—excuse us, John—Cougar Mellencamp.