Charleston city council members enjoyed a hearty chuckle during last April’s State of the City address when Mayor William Cogswell boasted that under his leadership, council meetings have been “civil, productive and well, short.”
Because it’s always funny when the CEO congratulates his board of directors for not watching the store.
Of course, Cogswell and his happily-home-for-dinner council members would say that’s unfair. After all, who likes long meetings? Surely, the new normal of hour-and-out council sessions provides sufficient oversight of the mayor’s office. Besides, does anybody really miss the combative late-night council meetings of the pre-Cogswell era?…