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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STACEY VANEK SMITH, HOST: This is THE INDICATOR FROM PLANET MONEY. I m Stacey Vanek Smith. And today I have Dan Weissmann with me. Hi, Dan.
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.
In the vast Mountain West, collaboration on radio news finds success
“During the pandemic, we made all of our content free to smaller, community radio stations that don’t have a news budget.”
By Rachel del Valle April 27, 2021, 10:05 a.m.
April 27, 2021, 10:05 a.m.
Last summer, I drove cross country. I found that in parts of the Mountain West Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming you can go for miles and miles and pick up just one or two radio stations. (If you’re one of the many people planning a road trip outside a metropolitan area in the next few months, you’ll likely notice this, too.)
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