Daniel Howes' Weekend Essay
Daniel Howes' Weekend Essay
Daniel Howes / The Detroit News
On General Motors’ Lordstown suitor
4 minutes Posted May 11, 2019 at 1:45 pm.
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This week, Daniel Howes says the “goods news” of General Motors Co. finding a potential buyer for its Lordstown Assembly Plant in northeast Ohio is drawing mixed reactions because the potential results could be mixed. Replacing the scale, jobs and payroll of a modern auto plant is next to impossible in an increasingly lean – and non-union – private economy. And the wrenching experience is exacerbated by the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years and economic growth running north of 3 percent.