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Mike ORielly
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10/14/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: An Honorable Man Was Among Us
Washington carried on mostly undisturbed when Jon Kyl, the former U.S. senator from Arizona, died several weeks ago. Regrettably, the passing of a true Senate Lion received too little acknowledgment and praise.
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09/09/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: ‘Fixing’ USF by Taxing Broadband is Lunacy
D.C. has a knack for creating policy zombies: no matter how often bad ideas are defeated, a determined few find ways to jolt them back to life.
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08/12/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Making a Troubled Broadband Program Worse?
If the Senate Farm Bill remains stalled, that may not be a complete setback if it prevents efforts to make ReConnect worse.
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07/08/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: A Tattered FCC Enforcement Process
For all intents and purposes, the FCC took a major hit this year.
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06/11/2026
O’Rielly: States Will Lose on Prediction Markets
For old tech policy veterans, the ongoing knife fight over how best to regulate prediction markets should trigger memories of near-identical struggles over states’ ability to call the shots in other contexts.
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05/13/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: In Defense of Data Centers
Unfair criticism is being leveled at AI data centers (and, indirectly, all of AI) by a collection of concerned citizens and select groups.