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A lot of Coloradans are worried about our democracy. And they want candidates to pay attention to it, too. That is the message that comes through loud and clear from more than 4,500 responses to the Voter Voices survey that The Denver Post and dozens of other newsrooms around Colorado are circulating during this election year, as of last week.

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This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with The Virginia Quarterly Review and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the first flush of an Arctic spring, the boreal forest begins to stir, emerging from a silvered quiet. Icicles shatter like glass. Meltwater babbles, braiding in puddles and then in deltas.

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