Lessenberry: Michigan’s manufacturing maven

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Lessenberry: Michigan’s manufacturing maven

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — For years, Michigan was proud to be known mainly as the “manufacturing state,” the place where they made stuff. Primarily cars and trucks, true, but all sort of other things as well, a place where engineers designed things and tough blue-collar workers in well-paid union jobs made them.