Lucas: Mike Kennealy’s common-sense candidacy

Lucas: Mike Kennealy’s common-sense candidacy

Five of the last seven governors of Democrat-controlled Massachusetts have been Republicans. Republican Mike Kennealy would make it six. Mike who? Mike Kennealy of Lexington, that’s who. Kennealy is a 57-year-old former business entrepreneur who found public service to be a second calling. That second calling led him to leave the private equity world to…

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Opinion: Shockingly, free school lunch isn’t really free. Colorado could ask voters to foot the bill.

Opinion: Shockingly, free school lunch isn’t really free. Colorado could ask voters to foot the bill.

Subsidize something and you’ll get more of it. Tax it and you’ll get less. That’s Economics 101. It’s not surprising that nearly three years after Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to subsidize free lunches for all students, regardless of parental income, utilization rates are higher than proponents expected, and the program is coming up…

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