MASSterList: Atlanta’s cyber warning | DUI and DAW | Farewell, Town Meeting

MASSterList: Atlanta’s cyber warning | DUI and DAW | Farewell, Town Meeting

Cyber-attacks: Are people paying attention to what just happened in Atlanta?

As experts recently gathered in Cambridge to review cyber threats to the nation’s election systems, as the Globe’s Michael Levenson reports, something very ominous has been unfolding in Atlanta, where the “municipal government has been brought to its knees since Thursday morning by a ransomware attack — one of the most sustained and consequential cyberattacks ever mounted against a major American city.” It’s scary stuff. The experts are not exaggerating the threat, folks. NYT

OUT-OF-TOUCH CHARLIE BAKER HAS ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW POOR THE RMV HAS BECOME WITH WAITS CUSTOMARILY HOURS LONG. 

Baker: RMV wait times will return to ‘new normal’ in a few weeks   The lines were still long yesterday for motorists trying to get new “REAL” driver’s licenses at Registry of Motor Vehicle branches, but Gov. Charlie Baker said yesterday that he expects the hours-long waits to dwindle to more normal wait times over the next few weeks. SHNS’s Katie Lannan (pay wall) and the Globe’s Adam Vaccaro have more on the rollout of the new federally-required REAL license program.

Amazon’s jobs-for-tax-breaks record not so stellar in Stoughton

After the city of Boston recently approved up to $10 million in tax breaks in exchange for Amazon’s pledge to bring thousands of jobs to Seaport, the BBJ’s Greg Ryan decided to take a look at a similar pledge Amazon made to Stoughton. It’s not going so well. Ryan has the details. BBJ

'DON'T MAKE WAVES' CHARLIE BAKER! BEFORE GOAL AND OTHER GUN OWNERS WHINE, LET'S REMEMBER THAT GUN OWNERS COULD HAVE STOOD UP AGAINST THE MASS SHOOTINGS & THE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS.YOU COULD HAVE STOOD FOR THE PROTECTION OF INNOCENT VICTIMS.

Burning question of the day: So why didn’t the adult governor show up for a march by and for teens?   The Globe’s Shirley Leung is once again asking why our moderate governor, Charlie Baker, didn’t attend a largely liberal-backed/inspired political march in Boston. This time it’s over Baker’s decision not to attend this past weekend’s March for Our Lives, which, we were told, was supposed to be by and for outraged teens. On the other side of the political punditry divide, the Herald’s Michael Graham outlines, indirectly, why many non-liberals may not have wanted to go to this past weekend’s march. CLICK ON LINK FOR MORE!