CO vows to fight president's mail voting order, CSP troopers attacked, adaptive motorsports, Dolly Parton remembered

Colorado election officials are vowing to maintain the state’s all-mail ballot system, even as the Trump administration moves forward with plans to restrict who can get ballots that way. Then, two state patrolmen were shot in Woodland Park Tuesday, unleashing a huge law enforcement response. Plus, we get a look behind the controls of a new adaptive race car, designed for people with serious spinal cord injuries. And Dolly Parton, remembered not just for her music, but as ‘the book lady.’

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Read more on the stories in today’s show:

• CPR’s Bente Birkeland on Colorado election officials’ fight to defend mail-ballots.
• CPR’s Molly Cruse on the shooting of two Colorado State Patrol officers in Woodland Park.
• CPR’s Tony Gorman on the effort to develop adaptive motorsports.
• Juanita Hurtado Huerfano on how community fundraising revived Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in two Colorado cities.

This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel. It’s edited and produced by Mateo Schimpf, Rae Solomon, Megan Verlee and Zain Haque-Piccione. The executive producer is Megan Verlee. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.