Representative Joe Graves

State Representative Joe Graves (R-Argentine Township) will be in studio for Friday's Conversations with Jason Cooper on Flint's News Talk 1470 WFNT. We'll discuss the town halls on property taxes that Graves is hosting, his proposed legislation to give local governments more control and more. We'll...

State Representative Joe Graves (R-Argentine Township) announced he will be hosting workshops for residents on property tax assessments and the appeal process. In a press release Graves said "property taxes can be complex, and I want people to know about their property tax rights...

State Representative Jim Ananich (D-Flint) on the State of the State Address: "Middle-class families in Genesee County have been hit pretty hard the last few years, suffering tax hikes and not enough jobs. I'm disappointed we didn't hear more of a sense of urgency about how we can get people back to work and let them keep more of their hard-earned money...

Governor Rick Snyder has signed legislation to ease the job search for veterans with military police experience. House Bill 5590, sponsored by state Representative Joe Graves, allows veterans' experience as military police to meet the experience criterion for licensure as a private security guard...

State Representatives Jim Ananich (D-Flint) and Joe Graves (R-Argentine Twp) will be on Friday's Conversations with Jason Cooper. We'll be discussing the new Freedom-to-Work legislation signed by the governor, changes to the Emergency Manager law, and more...

State Senator John Gleason: "As a man of Catholic faith, I firmly believe that the dignity of work is tied to the preservation of the rights of workers. Fair wages and safe work places are central to the equal treatment of all human beings...

Update: Earlier this evening the House approved House Bill 4054 which will provide workplace freedom to private sector union workers, ending forced unionization and forced union deductions that take away a worker's right to control how their hard-earned paycheck is spent. A separate bill currently in the Senate will provide ...

On Wednesday, the Michigan House approved legislation to help deter organized crime against retailers in the state. Organized retail crimes are committed by professional thieves who steal mass quantities of merchandise from local stores with the sole purpose of reselling the products to another store...

State Rep. Joe Graves encourages local residents to remain aware of the potential meningitis cases in the area, stemming from contaminated steroid injections that were administered at the Michigan Neurosurgical Institute in Grand Blanc. An investigation is under way in Michigan, which has linked an epidural steroid injection from one of the three lots of preservative-free methylprednisolone acetat

Michigan's hard-working taxpayers will start keeping more money in their paychecks today as a broad-based tax relief plan reducing the state's personal income tax takes effect, state Rep. Joseph Graves announced. Public Act 223 lowered the income tax rate from 4...