Daily Brief: Saturday, June 27, 2026

St. Louis news worth your time today — curated by PubDef, with receipts from the archive. Click through for the full stories.

In more states, older people outnumber children

Catron County, New Mexico, may be seeing the future of an aging population today. It has beautiful landscapes that draw retirees who fall in love with the area and want to stay among soaring rock… — Missouri Independent

Missouri parent groups organize against Amendment 5 over school funding concerns

Sarah Laub tried everything to get her son with learning disabilities a better education.  She drove him to a private school an hour and a half away from their home in rural Missouri before being… — Missouri Independent

📼 From the PubDef archive: “Hubbard Fights Back Against Hypocritical Attacks” (Jul 2008)

Your home is an investment – How to create generational wealth

A Q&A with Greg Smith For most Americans, owning a home has long been considered a cornerstone to building and preserving generational wealth. A home purchase often symbolizes more than just securing… — St. Louis American

📼 From the PubDef archive: “The “Grinch” is coming to South Grand” (Nov 2008)

St. Louis lands MVC women’s basketball championship

When I sat with Missouri Valley Conference Commissioner Jeff Jackson in November 2025, his staff was busy preparing for a series of team and individual championship weekends and the men’s and women’s… — St. Louis American

Mystikal receives twenty-year sentence after guilty plea

Rapper Mystikal, who earned multiple Grammy nominations in the early 2000s, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman at his Louisiana home in 2022. Mystikal — whose… — St. Louis American

‘This is not just a presidential library’ 

Long before the Barack Obama Presidential Center welcomed its first visitors, Daria Smith was helping imagine what it could become. By the time the campus opened last week on Juneteenth, the St.… — St. Louis American

📼 From the PubDef archive: “Irene, Maida and Mike — a Tale of Delusion, Promise and Possibility” (Nov 2008)

NAACP pushes for tougher data center accountability 

As St. Louis weighs the promises and risks of a $3 billion data center project in Midtown, the St. Louis branch of the NAACP is urging city leaders to ensure Black communities do not bear the costs… — St. Louis American

📼 From the PubDef archive: “Simckes Tries to Squash Anti-Affirmative Action Reports” (Apr 2008)

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