Melvindale News

While the decline of Wayne County property values comes as no surprise to many officials, Monday's release of the report left some assessors wishing predications had been wrong.

MELVINDALE, Mich. -- A Melvindale man with heart problems needed a new machine to help him breathe, but after waiting for weeks, he called the Problem Solvers.

It could be either , depending on how it was conducted: Jessica Gibson says she won't let her 11-year-old son complete a school assignment that she says took a lesson about slavery too far.

Amalgamated Capital , the New York-based leveraged finance division of Amalgamated Bank, announced that it recently closed an asset-based financing arrangement with Klochko Equipment Rental Company, based in the Detroit suburb of Melvindale, MI.

"Pretend that you are a slave in the southern United States," says the assignment.