Wendy Norris

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It’s been a great three year run but it’s time to turn a new chapter.

Big Oil makes a comeback in Iraq

Add this news to the numerous reasons oil exploration and production are down on the Western Slope. From Slate.com’s The Big Money:

“A welcome-back party for Big Oil” is how the Wall Street Journal today sums up the Iraqi government plan to open up its oil fields to the highest bidders after three decades of tight control under Saddam Hussein. Starting next week, the Iraqi government will begin auctioning off contracts to foreign countries, opening up a market with 115 billion barrels in “proven reserves.” “If all goes according to plan in the first round, foreign oil companies will move in to help Iraq revive production at six developed fields that have suffered from years of war and neglect,” the newspaper writes.

Independent Streak: Wednesday, June 24 headlines, snark and breaking news

Independent Streak: Tuesday, June 23 headlines, snark and breaking news

Independent Streak: Monday, June 22 headlines, snark and breaking news

Independent Streak: Friday, June 19 headlines, snark and breaking news

Democratizing federal contract process with sunlight

This is kinda cool.

Über transparency advocates the Sunlight Foundation is crowdsourcing a federal contract bid to redesign the economic stimulus oversight Web site, Recovery.gov, through it’s open source development lab.

Tancredo linked to Minuteman group accused of Arizona double-murder

Shawna Forde and members of Minutemen American Defense — an anti-illegal immigration vigilante group charged in the double homicide of an Arizona man and his 9-year-old daughter and the attempted murder of the man’s wife — shared a stage, if not their vigilante streak, with former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo.

Independent Streak: Thursday, June 18 headlines, snark and breaking news

Independent Streak: Wednesday, June 17 headlines, snark and breaking news