New television ads for Detroit mayoral hopeful the Rev. Solomon Kinloch highlight the time as a young boy that he and his family struggled with poverty and lived in an abandoned house in the city.

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DETROIT — Basketball legend Dave Bing, elected as Detroit’s third mayor in less than a year, promises swift and decisive action once he officially assumes the Motor City’s top post. But restoring ...