JANE AHLIN
Ahlin: Avoiding uncomfortable words gives them power 
Adults are comfortable with the word consent. It’s solid, clear; no offensive associations: Not “implied consent” or “coerced consent” (both terms suggest contradiction) but only consent itself. A person either consents or doesn’t. The word does not lend itself to fudging, especially when the larger subject is sex.
By Jane Ahlin , May 24, 2014
Ahlin: Not much new thinking about school populations
What a disappointment to see Fargo Public Schools administrators and board settling on tired ideas for balancing school populations. In maps of proposed attendance areas, they uncreatively move a line south – as if 30 years of rejecting that idea had not occurred. Even odder, the plan comes at a time when the buzzword for city officials is “infill.” The two ideas are incompatible.
By Jane Ahlin , May 17, 2014
Ahlin: How much I wanted to go; how much I wanted to stay
My mother said, “This is the hard part.”
By Jane Ahlin , May 10, 2014
Ahlin: Perhaps we aren’t as far apart as we think we are
Two big news stories this week reconnected us to societal limits.
By Jane Ahlin , May 03, 2014
Ahlin: Just like the Fargo you know and love, isn’t it?
Could it really be 18 years? Indeed, 18 years passed between “Fargo,” the movie, and “Fargo,” the television show, which premiered this past week.
By Jane Ahlin , April 19, 2014
Ahlin: Developing countries wiser than North Dakota
On a recent trip to the South American countries of Peru and Ecuador, nothing was more impressive to my husband and me than the unwavering commitment of both nations to places of natural beauty, scientific significance and historical importance.
By Jane Ahlin , April 12, 2014
Ahlin: All that piety can’t hide Hobby Lobby hypocrisy
We Americans are used to hypocrisy. Heaven knows, the political world spins in it, and, sad to say, so does the politically focused religious world.
By Jane Ahlin , April 05, 2014
Ahlin: From Peru: a snapshot in form of our tour guide
The name of our Peruvian guide is Ciro (pronounced, “see-roh” with a good roll of the “r”).
By Jane Ahlin , March 29, 2014
Ahlin: Vote ‘yes’ for the future of Fargo public schools
The subject of mill levies doesn’t make for dazzling dialogue. Unless we see mill levy authority as being abused or as unreasonable, it’s ho-hum stuff likely to make our eyes glaze over. Still, it’s important, so let’s do our best to talk about it.
By Jane Ahlin , March 01, 2014
Ahlin: Mary ponders right to kill someone who ticks you off
The sun was shining, the only jacket I needed for warmth was a layer of fleece, and we had friends joining us for dinner.
By Jane Ahlin , February 22, 2014
Ahlin: Our humanity depends on completing the task
The title caught my eye: “The Lost Art of the Condolence Letter.”
By Jane Ahlin , February 15, 2014
Ahlin: Consider new attitudes about love and marriage
Ah, Valentine’s Day: What’s not to love about hearts, flowers and chocolate? What’s not to love about love, or, for that matter, about love and marriage, which, let’s be honest, do not “go together like a horse and carriage”?
By Jane Ahlin , February 08, 2014
Ahlin: Huckabee is in lockstep with GOP view of women
No surprise that the Republicans chose a female legislator, House member Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, to deliver the official rebuttal to President Obama’s “State of the Union” speech. The need to appear female-friendly is front and center among Republican priorities this election year – especially after one of their religious media favorites refocused America on the party’s attitude toward women in a most unfortunate way.
By Jane Ahlin , February 02, 2014
Ahlin: Year of the woman writer churns out ‘mommy porn’
The movie industry long has been criticized for gender imbalance: writers, directors, producers and even actors are predominantly male. Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that the same problem exists in the literary community. But it does.
By Jane Ahlin , January 25, 2014
Ahlin: Stats say we drink a lot, but we’re a nice bunch of drunks
Fargo: drunkest city in America. And we thought being identified with a wood chipper was a dubious distinction.
By Jane Ahlin , January 18, 2014
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