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New stadium for Browns

It’s a no-brainer that the Browns should move to the site they’re considering near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

A) First off, there would be a much better parking situation for all involved: Fans, employees, Browns staff and players.

B) The environment would be much safer. As we’ve seen over the last year or two, there have been too many shootings in the downtown area during family events. Fans wouldn’t have to deal with the panhandlers, etc., who are present throughout downtown. They’d feel much more secure.

C) The area’s eating options would be highly improved, making a game day experience a lot more fun for families and pregame parties.

D) A covered facility would make for a much better experience for football games, concerts and other large crowd events.

Again, it’s an obvious no-brainer.

Steve Vigder, Akron

Welcome to the eclipse

I’m embarrassed. Recently, while talking with friends, the solar eclipse came up. I noted the widely reported, significant number of visitors expected. To which someone else said, “I certainly hope so.”

Here comes the embarrassing part. I was surprised.

I had passively absorbed the published grumbling about traffic, crowds, other inconveniences, the many ways I had heard, “What will the eclipse do to Akron?” Wrong question, I realized. What will the eclipse do FOR Akron?

For restaurants and bars, hotels and airbnbs, car rentals, live music, theaters, museums, grocery stores, retail, the national park? For local sales tax revenue, which stays here?

I should have thought this through earlier. When people come to Akron, it’s good for Akron.

Julie Drew, Akron

A decade of affordable care

Citizen friends: When is the last time you had to worry about being kicked off your insurance because, through no fault of your own, you developed a disease that is costly to treat, or kept from qualifying to get health insurance that might even include essential coverage for your kids because of an injury or illness suffered by you long ago?

The last time you were treated for an illness, did you wonder how a doctor could get the results of your blood test within just a few hours?

Did someone you know find an actual starting point in their search for ANY health insurance that actually made the process easier and more fair?

If you are old enough, think back 20 years when health care and insurance were a scary crapshoot. What happened? It’s known as the Affordable Care Act. Congratulations, America. We won!

Todd Schneider, Cuyahoga Falls

What a stark contrast

On Easter Sunday, I gratefully received a “Happy Easter” greeting and a heartwarming story on the front page of the Beacon Journal. Dr. Jason Kolb’s positive attitude and saga of triumphs overcoming his paralysis, paired with his faith, were certainly inspiring and a noteworthy tribute to the holiday.

Charita Goshay’s editorial column (“How did we stray so far from the truth?”) was a stark contrast, dragging this reader through the muck of partisan insults and divisive rhetoric.

I failed to find the feeble connection to the Easter holiday’s ideals of grace, love and forgiveness. Although, the content and tone of her editorial may provide a clue to the question posed in the title. The truth is seldom found from condescending derision.

Clayton Whitney, Akron

Is it worth it?

Regarding the March 31 letter headlined “A simple economics quiz:”

To former teacher Ed Arida of Stow: It appears you believe that 3% lower living expenses is worth the price of sacrificing “The Rule of Law and Democracy.”

I hope you were not teaching social studies.

Robert L. Summers, Hiram

We can’t afford Biden

Rick Hawksley’s (“Please stop already,” March 17) finger-pointing at former President Donald Trump is a textbook example of why Communist China has been able to make such serious inroads in damaging America.

Too many Washington politicians — on both sides of the aisle — led by the corrupt and compromised serial liar Joe Biden, whose family has disgracefully received tens of millions of dollars from America's adversaries in an elaborate influence-peddling scheme, slake their thirst and greed by bellying up to the Communist Chinese trough.

Biden’s financial policies have America on a road to ruin that is unsustainable. His approval ratings on the economy are rock bottom. Who does Hawksley blame for his skyrocketing grocery bills?

Biden has done nothing to stop the flow of fentanyl into America — made with raw materials from China — which launders the Mexican cartels drug- and human-trafficking profits — and seeks to destroy America from within.

Biden shamefully stands by and continues his campaign of misdirection citing climate change as the real danger confronting America — not the collapsed border and the astronomical costs — and risks.

The vast majority of Americans neither want — nor can afford — what Biden is selling.

Biden and Washington’s career politicians have betrayed America. Dazed-and-confused Biden mumbles on about thrashing Corn Pop behind the school gym while, as just one example, America’s homeless veterans struggle to survive another long day on the mean streets of Biden’s disastrously reimagined America.

Why does Jill Biden allow her frequently incomprehensible husband to continue to humiliate himself and this country?

James Collver, Akron

Paying for a bridge

President Joe Biden’s offer to finance the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is commendable, but I do not believe the project is entirely a federal responsibility. The original bridge was financed by a $220 million bond issue that sold in October 1968. (“Last Hurdle Cleared for Harbor Bridge,” The Evening Sun, Baltimore, June 10, 1972).

Clearing the wreckage to open the harbor should be funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The replacement of the bridge should be the responsibility of Baltimore and/or Maryland, whichever issued and sold and repaid the October 1972 bond.

The Key bridge primarily served the local area as it was the final connection of the Baltimore Beltway (I-695), and while significant to the local area, had little national impact.

Robert A. Dill, Stow

This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Cleveland Browns should move to land near Hopkins Airport