The front courtyard demolition continues at Artery Plaza at 7200 Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Bethesda. Much of the work has been done at night to avoid impacting pedestrian and automobile traffic during business hours. Landlord JBG Smith is attempting to reactivate the outdoor space as it was in the 1990s, when there was outdoor dining here.
Will there be a new restaurant there?
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to it. LOL
Delete10:56 AM - I thought that too when I saw the clip this AM!
ReplyDeleteWhen will the apartment and condo dwellers finally be done with hearing 24-7 construction noise?
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2:50: I take comparison to America's Mayor as a compliment. Too bad the County Council combined doesn't have one-one-hundredth of Rudy's leadership skills.
ReplyDeleteYou're both crazy as a loon, though so far only Rudy is a proven traitor.
ReplyDelete6:23: LOL, read the guy's resume. Then put yours next to it. Your own County government uses the tools Rudy pioneered in New York. How is it "traitorous" to demand an investigation into the Biden family's profiteering from foreign powers, and into Joe Biden blackmailing Ukraine into getting rid of a prosecutor who was trying to do just that? He's on video admitting it!
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ReplyDeleteIn castigating Biden's effort to get the prosecutor general fired, Trump has declined to mention an important fact: a whole lot of other people were also trying to get him fired at the time.
The Obama administration, American allies, the International Monetary Fund and Ukrainian anti-corruption activists, among others, had all made clear that they were displeased with the performance of Viktor Shokin, who became prosecutor general in 2015.
Shokin was widely faulted for declining to bring prosecutions of elites' corruption, and he was even accused of hindering corruption investigations. His deputy, Vitaliy Kasko, resigned in February 2016, alleging that Shokin's office was itself corrupt.
The International Monetary Fund warned Ukraine in February 2016 that it risked losing financial support if it did not clean up its act. The Financial Times explained in its article on the warning that then-President Petro Poroshenko was facing pressure to replace Shokin, whom the newspaper described as a "long-time loyalist" of the president; the article continued, "Mr. Shokin has been criticized for failing to bring to justice any of the snipers who killed dozens of protesters in central Kiev in the final days of the revolution, and for dragging his feet over investigating senior officials and businesspeople."
In a September 2015 speech, the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, used blunt language in criticizing Shokin, blasting "corrupt actors within the Prosecutor General's Office" who were "making things worse by openly and aggressively undermining reform." Then, during a visit to Ukraine, Biden, who had long handled Ukraine issues for the Obama administration, applied public and private pressure on the government.
Trump has repeatedly claimed Shokin was investigating Hunter Biden. For example, Trump alleged Saturday that the media wants to avoid talking about the "Joe Biden demand that the Ukrainian Government fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son..."
But there is no public evidence that Hunter Biden was ever himself under investigation.
The investigation, as far as we know, was into the business activities of Mykola Zlochevsky, who owned a natural gas company, Burisma Holdings, for which Hunter Biden had sat on the board of directors since 2014. The United Kingdom had begun investigating Zlochevsky before Hunter Biden joined the board.
"Hunter Biden did not violate any Ukrainian laws," Shokin's successor as prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, told Bloomberg. Of a 2013 business transaction that was part of the investigation, Lutsenko said, "(Hunter) Biden was definitely not involved. We do not have any grounds to think that there was any wrongdoing starting from 2014."
10:16: A lot of people were also trying to investigate the Biden Ukraine scandal. So even if Trump asked them to, which we have no recording of, just hearsay by a third party (in contrast to Biden admitting he did the same thing on video), he would only have done exactly the same thing as Biden - which you and FactCheck claim was not "wrongdoing."
ReplyDeleteSo if Joe Biden is cleared, so is Trump.
"If it's what you say, I love it."
That you think its a-ok for a president to extort the president of a fledgling democracy, while using taxpayer funds, tells readers everything they need to know about Robert Dyer.
ReplyDelete6:29: A phone call cost "taxpayer funds?" Despite that not even being a true, accurate transcript of the call, nowhere in the account does Trump "extort" anybody.
ReplyDeleteThat you think it's "a-ok" for the CIA to bug the Oval Office, and conduct open espionage against the elected American president on behalf of entities working against America - and leak classified phone calls, tells readers everything they need to know about you, anonymous troll.
OMG MOCOCARTEL CONTROLS DEEPSTATE!!!
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