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WASHINGTON — The latest in a long line of widows to seek to succeed their husbands in Congress, Minnesota Republican Jennifer Carnahan said this week she’ll run for the late Rep. Jim Hagedorn’s seat. But the former state party chair faces a contest, and enters with some baggage.

Former Minnesota GOP chair Jennifer Carnahan is running for her late husband's seat in Congress, but faces opposition.

We're in the transition stretch of March when winter still grips our senses but spring has a foothold. Still many times anchored indoors, we weigh optimistically the adventures, large and small, that await us in Minnesota's outdoors — and beyond. Drawn to dream as the coming days grow longer and…

In a rare display of like-minded thinking across the aisle, politicians on both the left and right are calling for cuts or suspensions to their state’s gas tax or the federal government’s. It’s happening in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin and…