Planet M aims to shift Michigan's orbit from manufacturing to mobility

Dustin Walsh - U.S. manufacturing jobs are never coming back. This is a reality too painful to recognize, but too true to ignore. Michigan, while still the world's largest automotive epicenter, is changing, and the state's leaders, business and political, must make way for an industry with shrinking labor needs and greater emphasis on talent and technology. On Wednesday, at the Mackinac Policy Conference, those same stakeholders unveiled Planet M — a clunky name for a meaningful shift in the way this