Metro Council Sets Record With 7 1/2-Hour Meeting

Last week, Nashville's bloated, 40-person city council held its longest meeting ever. From The Tennessean:

After a 7 p.m. start, the council met until 2:30 a.m. yesterday, setting a record for the length of a meeting with the 7½-hour session. While most of Davidson County slept, council members pondered everything from zoning ordinances to whether a former councilman should get a handwritten resolution of appreciation.

I caught some of this meeting on Channel 3, the Metro Government channel, and the faces of everyone involved revealed boredom, frustration, apathy, and exhaustion. I started dosing off after watching five minutes of the session; the actual meeting lasted 90 times that long.

At any rate, I have now decided that I will never run for Metro Council. It just isn't worth it.