The tributes to Helen S. Rattray roll in.

Setting aside nostalgia for the days when local politics didn’t divide so starkly into blue and red camps, the fact is that single-party rule is simply a bad way to make important decisions.

If there were any doubt about how thoroughly the Trump administration has drunk from the cup of Orwellian doublethink, it has been dispelled.

For Helen S. Rattray, a “testimony and witness to more than a half-century of community life.”