Amid growing coronavirus concerns, locals are torn over Coachella festival coming to their town
LOS ANGELES - At the Empire Polo Club in Indio, six weeks before the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is set to kick off, the peaked white tents are going up across the rolling green lawns. The rainbow-tinted "Spectra" observation deck looms over the field, ready for fans from around the world to soak in the panoramas as Travis Scott, Rage Against the Machine, Frank Ocean and more than 150 acts perform.
Twenty-five miles away, Barbara Cooper and Steve Widders walked their dog on a hiking path by the Indian Canyons Golf Resort in Palm Springs, and they were growing a bit nervous - about coronavirus possibly coming to their town, and how it might affect one of the biggest weeks for tourism in their area.
"I just came from Sonoma, where they had people quarantined. People
