NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith are meeting in Minnesota without players or owners present. Three people told the AP on Tuesday that the two power brokers and staff members were getting together to resume negotiations aimed at ending a lockout now in its fourth month.... more »
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Some unhappy Tennessee Titans fans are warning NFL commissioner Roger Goodell that the owners' lockout will cost the league if it doesn't end soon. Goodell spent a little more than a half-hour with Titans fans in his latest conference call with season ticket holders around the... more »
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - NFL owners and players have wrapped up another round of court-ordered mediation without any sign of a new agreement. Officials and attorneys for both sides left the federal courthouse in Minneapolis on Tuesday afternoon and said they'd return before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan on June 7.... more »
DENVER (AP) - The state board of education has narrowed down their search for the next education commissioner to one person. The Denver Post reported Tuesday that Robert Hammond has been named as the sole finalist. Hammond has been filling in as commissioner since December when former commissioner Dwight Jones... more »
The State Board of Education is looking for help in selecting a new commissioner of education for Colorado.
The public is invited to take a survey online to determine what values a new commissioner should have.
Click here to take the survey.
The survey will be posted... more »
News First and Independent election forum covers El Paso County Clerk, Commissioner District 5, Commissioner District 1, Amendments 60, 61 and 101 plus El Paso 1A (marijuana). more »
Colorado Education Commissioner Dwight Jones has been chosen as the new superintendent of the school district that includes Las Vegas.
KTNV-TV in Las Vegas reports that the Clark County School District voted 6-1 Wednesday to select Jones to head the district that is the nation's fifth-largest. Jones has to... more »
El Paso County Commissioner Amy Lathen says she supports Amendment 20 (medical marijuana) on the caregiver level. Lathen says voters should decide on dispensaries.
Colorado Springs Councilmember Sean Paige says he supports Amendment 20 on both the caregiver and dispensary level.
Even on Amendment 20, they're not in... more »
Colorado officials say the state's agricultural exports through the first half of the year are up 27 percent from the same period last year, to $508.9 million.
Colorado exports of meat, hides and skins, animal products such as milk, eggs and honey, miscellaneous food and miscellaneous grains, seeds and... more »