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NACA, Justin Hunt Still at Large
This mess just keeps on giving. Bruce Marks and the shakedown artists at NACA have outdone themselves. Turns out that in order to get $3.5m. in taxpayer subsidies, Marks and…
Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America
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Justin Hunt Needs to Apologize to These Folks
Hey, what do you know — NACA — just like GMAC — is turning into another local subsidized “job creation” nightmare. WBTV reports that the NACA boiler-room workers have walked…
Liberty
Bruce Marks Still At Large
Believed to be driving a large bus. We could be seeing the end of the private mortgage market in the United States, replaced a government-directed taxpayer-guaranteed regime, with large roles…
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Now THIS would hit ACORN where it hurts
Bank of America “has ‘suspended current commitments’ to Acorn Housing, an affiliated group, and ‘will not enter into any further agreements with Acorn or any of its affiliates,’ pending assessments…
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Is Charlotte An "Unbanked" City?
Must be. Otherwise why would city officials and Uptown insiders be dancing with Grameen America? In an all-time financial whiplash move, the microfinance outfit which got its start in Bangladesh…
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Bruce Marks' First Shakedown a Success
That was quick. All Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America CEO Bruce Marks had to do to up his taxpayer subsidy package from $1m. to $3.5m. was to promise to hire…
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Who the Hell Elected Justin Hunt?
Thanks to some real investigative reporting from Uptown banking scribe Rick Rothacker, the public now has a window on how things get done in Charlotte. State and local government officials…
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NC: "The France of the United States"
Oh…oh…does that mean…be still my striving Uptown heart…that Charlotte is the Paris of the Carolinas? Yes, in all the wrong ways. Scott Hodge of the Tax Foundation, the authoritative outfit…
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Perdue gives $1 million to self-professed urban terrorist
Matthew Vadum at American Spectator wonders what Bruce Marks, the head of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, had on Beverly Perdue. Perdue announced with much fanfare a $1 million…
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NACA's Bruce Marks is a Bully
Just cannot believe the junk that has flown out of the Charlotte Chamber and associated apologists today on the NACA million-dollar jobs subsidy. NACA chief Bruce Marks is no friend…
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NACA to Fix Windows It Broke. Yippee!
And is only asking for $1m. in North Carolina taxpayer money to do it. I tell you folks, here we have sure fire proof that one of the two following…
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BofA Creation on the Loose in Uptown
This is a classic Charlotte story. The protest in Uptown yesterday by the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America was set in motion over a decade ago by none other than…