Flood recovery group told: Work 'to restore our great state'

BATON ROUGE - Gov. John Bel Edwards charged members of his flood recovery planning group to be bold and innovative in its response to the mid-August flooding and to "devise a plan to restore our great state."The Democratic governor spoke Wednesday as the Restore Louisiana Task Force held its first meeting. But the group doesn't yet have any block grant money to oversee.Edwards says he remains optimistic about Louisiana's work to get the disaster block grant aid from Congress, which has gotten bo