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09_22_25amheadlines Jack Armstrong
Headlines Monday Sept 22, 2025
House Republicans Choose Jarvis Caldwell as New Minority Leader
Republicans in the Colorado General Assembly chose Jarvis Caldwell as the new house minority. Caldwell succeeded the most recent state GOP leader, Rose pugliese, after she resigned on September 15.
Caldwell won 12 of 20 total votes, highlighting that he feels a turning point with him being elected.
According to Colorado politics, Caldwell spoke on how state democrats are seeing their approval ratings dwindle, the state budget is in crisis, costs are rising for Coloradans across the state. During his speech, Caldwell punctuated his plans to use this moment to move more republicans into more house seats and win elections across the state.
When interviewed by Colorado Politics, Caldwell said those he disagrees with, Majority Leader Monica Duran, he wishes to seek common ground with his counterpart across the aisle, seeking to make solutions for Colorado.
Gabe Evans Says no Crime
Republican Congressman Gabe Evans says Governor Jared Polis isn’t doing enough to curb crime but Evans would not ask President Donald Trump to send the national guard to the state.
Congressman Evans is up for reelection in Colorado’s swing district the 8th CD north of Denver. In an interview with the Colorado Capital News Alliance, Evans says Democrats in charge of state government are soft on crime but that it’s clear federal troops can’t engage in policing absent very specific guidelines and exceptions.
And so you have to have state governors involved anytime that there’s a National Guard, uh, deployment for a policing action, which of course brings us right back to the fact that we have a governor who is unwilling to engage in making, uh, communities safe, uh, and unwilling to, uh, allocate the resources necessary.
President Trump is sending national guard to Democratic run cities, he says to combat crime. Evans is calling for a special session. Governor Jared Polis says the state has passed laws and reduced crime but blamed the federal government for withholding critical funds.
Again, that report comes to KGNU from the Colorado Capitol News Alliance…
CO Approval against regulating 5 air toxins
Colorado’s clean air advocates won a vote to regulate more lesser-known contaminants this past week. The state’s Air Quality Control Commissioner enshrined rules on the pollutants Friday, but the Colorado Newsline reports that the unanimously agreed upon new rules will have to be reviewed by state legislature and won’t affect permitting for at least another year.
The Newsline also reports that these rules come after the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has come under scrutiny for being soft major corporate pollutant powerhouses and bending state regulations for their gain. The Commissioners controlling the new regulations opted for less stringent rules than those endorsed from activist efforts, the less stringent rules were endorsed by oil and gas developers according to the Colorado Newsline.
The new rules regulate the following pollutants: Benzene, Hexavalent chromium, Ethylene oxide, Formaldehyde, andHydrogen sulfide. All of the chemicals had activists and community members testify to the health risks of exposure, but those same activists said the rules didn’t go far enough to protect Coloradans.
The CDPHE who argued for a more stringent “hazard quotient” said the current decision would not provide “ample margin of safety, particularly for vulnerable groups.”
CU Boulder v. Wyoming
In Men’s football news, The Colorado Buffaloes faced off against the Wyoming Cowboys this past Saturday. The Buffs won the game 37 to 20.
Highlights from the game include a far and away CU lead of 28-3 in the third quarter quickly leading to a game tightening 30-13 by the end of the quarter.
Coach Deion Sanders was not satisfied with the way his team ended the game, telling ESPN QUOTE, “I’m happy with the results, but I’m not happy with the finish.”
The Buffs are lined up for another home game this Saturday against the BYU Cougars.
