Why aren't there foreign plants here?(column)(new plants in Michigan)(Column)

From: Crain's Detroit Business | Date: May 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: KEITH CRAIN

Whenever I read about new plants being built, we never hear about them being planned in Michigan.

We've got new plants from German, Japanese and even Korean manufacturers all across America. Except in Michigan.

When politicians are interviewed on radio or television or quoted in the newspapers, we never seem to mention the one thing that is different about our state compared with all those other states that have new assembly plants.

We have lots of technical centers with plenty of white-collar workers all around Ann Arbor and Detroit. Foreign ...

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