October 2016

As a writer-editor, I thought I might be able to ascend the family pecking order. And when I recently became editor-in-chief of this magazine, I figured the top spot was all but mine.

I am a woman, I like women, and I wish I could support you. But I can’t.

“As I write this, Governor Mike Pence has joined himself to Donald Trump’s hip, thereby sanctioning thuggery, deceit, sexism, xenophobia, bigotry, greed, and ignorance.”

Chatham Hills is the latest Pete Dye masterpiece. Oddly, three local courses all claim to be the first.

Indiana’s golf scene doesn’t have Michigan’s 800-plus courses, Chicago’s history as a tournament site, or the cachet of Florida, California, and Arizona. But we have something those places don’t: Pete Dye.

Overlooked in the indignation over job exportation—which thrashed between sincere and synthetic—was the Hoosier State’s steadily growing reliance on job importation.

“If we could get to where we really have 400,000 visitors a year, that would be large,” the museum’s CEO says. “That would be a stretch goal. It’s going to be very hard to do in a city the size of Indianapolis.”