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Living in Colorado, for many, means spending a lot of time worrying about how to make the rent or the mortgage — or whether they’ll ever be able to buy a home. RELATED: Candidates across the ballot are talking about the cost of housing. But will the issue sway votes? Housing costs have been on a long and sometimes sharp climb throughout the state.

Patricia Dore had multiple concerns on her mind when she pored over her lengthy Denver ballot for the Nov. 5 election. Public safety was high on the list, and fiscal responsibility factored into her decision-making, too. RELATED: Where to find housing — from tax proposals to rising prices — on your Colorado ballot But housing also shaped her thinking — even though she’s an 81-year-old retiree who has lived in the same southeast Denver home for five decades. “It just blows my mind, the cost of housing,” Dore said after depositing her ballot in the drop box outside the Cook Park Recreation Center last week.

Every Monday morning, the staff of the Abortion Fund of Ohio’s intake line starts fresh, answering calls, following up on voicemails, and doling out cash to people who can’t afford to go to their abortion appointments. The team of three fields as many financial requests as they can until the money allotted for the week runs out.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A large majority of people tell pollsters they support renewable energy. But when ordinances and projects come before local governments, opponents show up more often than supporters. Greenlight America, a new national nonprofit, wants to change this.

Harris and Walz will studiously ignore this. The rest of the world should pay attention.

Why in Heaven’s name would anyone vote for people like this ever to hold political office in these United States?