Daniel Pate

Native of San Diego, now growing where I've been planted in STL. Looking for contacts and context in order to make a more perfect region.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “Headline: ‘Donald Trump can’t open the Strait of Hormuz, so instead he’s blocking the Strait of Detroit.’ It’s a headline from The Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper. The big beautiful new bridge that Trump is not allowing us to use, is a bridge that crosses the Detroit River. It goes from…Detroit…to…Ontario. Canada fully financed and paid for this bridge. It is ready to be opened, it will be the biggest U.S. border crossing in Canada, it will be one of the most important routes for trade in the entire world, the single most important one with one of our two most important trading partners, Canada, but Trump won’t let anybody use it, even though it’s ready, ready to be driven on.” 🤦‍♀️

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “It was supposed to open Friday, it is not open because Trump says he does not want it open. When this bridge does open some day, if Trump ever lets it open, you should know that there is a competing bridge a little way down the river, a privately-owned very old very congested toll bridge that will likely LOSE some of its traffic…because of competition. It will lose some of its traffic to this pretty, brand new bridge that has just been built. The family that operates the competing old bridge, earlier this year, made a $1 million donation to Donald Trump’s super pac. In short order, a member of that family then got an in person meeting with Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The White House and the pac say that was just a coincidence…but after the million dollar donation, he gets this meeting, and then the SAME day of the meeting, Howard Lutnick calls President Donald Trump and then Trump suddenly discovers new supposedly trade-related reasons why he’s now suddenly against this bridge, even though previously he has been for it.” 🤦‍♀️

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

@DonOrsillo welcome to St Louis. #fedora

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Since the @WhiteHouse and @POTUS is mad about this, please don’t retweet or share

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

Wow. @CaraSpencerSTL not sure about all this buck passing. https://t.co/RhcbEgjSH2

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

@stlcsb @AmerenMissouri Ameren already came out. On a Saturday. Unfortunately, they can’t do anything with this pole. They stated it is city property and they only provide power to it.

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

@stlcsb hey. Guys. The power pole is dangerous. Please help. Ameren has come out and they said the pole is the City’s. Alley at Shenandoah and Spring.

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

Thank you! Someone has already been out to look at it. Thanks @AmerenMissouri this pole. And this hazard is STL City property. @stlcsb please do what you can.

[Ameren Missouri @AmerenMissouri]

@danielpate_com Hi Daniel. Thank you for reporting the broken pole. We have issued a ticket for a technician to come out and repair the pole.

[Mark Maxwell @MarkMaxwellTV]

One year after the tornado. Zero in HUD disaster recovery funds.

Now Cori Bush is attacking Wesley Bell for not knowing how to get it as Bell unveils new legislation this morning.

The federal recovery fight has become a Democratic primary fight.

https://t.co/qnErzqIysj

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

@stlcsb @AmerenMissouri hey guys. This pole at the alley between Shenandoah and Cleveland and Spring is really bad. That price of wood is waiting to impale someone when it comes down. Please help.

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

@stlcsb Hi CSB. There is a dumpster in the alley between Shenandoah and botanical at Spring with no lids. Rain is coming! Please help!!!

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

@PFell5 @Beganovic2026 They think the best use is NGA 2.0. That why they fixed the process to hire Russell Halliday to kick anyone who survived the tornado out.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

INCREDIBLE!

Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson who had Trump’s FBI raid her home and take her phones and laptops, just won the Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post.

Congrats!!

[Act for Missouri @ActforMissouri]

Part 2: Senator Moon inquires of a lobbyist!

Here’s why Missourians are done with “just trust us.”

In this late-night clip, Senators openly acknowledge that at least some members had not seen the substitute language until they returned and found it on their desks. Senator Hough says it was “the first time I’ve seen the substitute when I walked in here, and I had it on my desk,” and Senator Moon notes they’re “taking others’ word for it.”

This is not a minor bill. They describe it as a “pretty substantial change” in how taxes are collected.
Citizens should not be asked to accept major changes after late-night negotiations with limited time to read, understand, or debate what changed.

That’s why we are pushing for:
Public video for floor and committee proceedings
A real public archive so citizens can verify what happened later (not just live audio that disappears)

If you haven’t seen Post 1, it shows how empty the chamber was when the bill was called.
#moleg #mosen #actformissouri

[Nightingale Associates @FCNightingale]

A St. Louis judge has appointed a court receiver to take control of the Westin St. Louis hotel after its owner defaulted on a $35.7 million loan.

Hotel was purchased for $66.5 million in 2017.

The lender is Aareal Capital Corp., a U.S. subsidiary of German real estate lender Aareal Bank.

They sued the borrower, LCP Cupples SPE LLC, an entity tied to Lennox Capital Partners, over the default.

Hotel opened in 2001. It was once a turn-of-the-century warehouse complex that was built to house goods that were staged to be shipped west of the Mississippi River.

263 Rooms 811 Spruce Street St. Louis, Missouri

-bizjournals
#commercialrealestate

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

@stlcsb hey. This is maybe an emergency. 2301 S Spring. I think the apartment is unoccupied. There is still sharp glass that is able to injure someone. The main window fell and glass is on the sidewalk.

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

@sarahfenske @RyanWKrull @GreaterSTLinc But tell me again about parking tickets.

[Daniel Pate @danielpate_com]

@sarahfenske @RyanWKrull @GreaterSTLinc The LRA now owns units in the Marquette building. Steve Smith allowed it to happen. Why was he on Cara Spencer’s transition team? Why do we have him testify about incentive districts downtown? This is about 500k in revenue the city didn’t collect for this project.