Highway 111 Robbery?

Akilah Seecharan in the Desert Sun looks at the The Golf Resort at Indian Wells and the city -- which has a $13 million operating budget -- embarking on a planned $45 million renovation. Seecharan writes that "some changes in store for the public golf resort are an $18 million course expansion that will add six new holes to the existing 18-hole course. The rest of the $45 million will be used on a new clubhouse and colorful landscaping, such as wildflowers and tumbling waterfalls."

"We're no longer the best golf course in the valley," says City Council member Rob Bernheimer, apparently unaware that neither course was ever even one of the best in Indian Wells.

"I think this course will certainly have more length, personality, color and water features, such as tumbling water streams. Our vision is to make this a world-class golf resort," architect Clive Clark said.