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DARIAN WOODS, HOST: Harry Pickernell is the chairman of the Chehalis Tribe in Washington State, but don t let that title fool you into thinking that he s just some kind of suit.
HARRY PICKERNELL: I m not the suit and tie kind of chairman. If I have a polo shirt on, I m dressed up.
WOODS: Yeah. It s got a collar. Talking to us, he just wears a red T-shirt. He says it reminds him of his grandchildren.
PICKERNELL: It s one of my favorite shirts that says Papa Bear on it with the old guy with a couple of his grandkids.
WOODS: Harry s always been this kind of family-first guy. He still lives close to where he grew up in Oakville, which is the small town that borders and overlaps with the Chehalis reservation. And as Harry grew up, there weren t that many jobs in the area. And since the mid-1990s, the tribe s revenue has been pretty dependent on one source, the Lucky Eagle Casino. So a few years ago, Harry s tribe was looking to find a broader range of ways to make money for the tri
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DAN WEISSMANN, BYLINE: Hi, Stacey.
VANEK SMITH: And, Dan, you are the host of a podcast called An Arm And A Leg, which is all about the cost of health care. Thanks for coming to talk to us on THE INDICATOR.
WEISSMANN: Thank you so much for having me. I have some good news - which, as you can imagine, reporting on the cost of health care, that s not something I get to say every day.
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Emma Peaslee is a 2020-21 Kroc Fellow. Before coming to NPR, she reported for Atlanta s member station, WABE. She covered public forums about toxic chemicals leaking into neighborhoods, the world s largest 10K race, and the federal government s plan to resume executions. Peaslee has a master s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where her work received the 2020 Edward R. Murrow Award for best student newscast. She is a Minnesota native.