PATTERSON — The city council meeting Tuesday was all about the water — except when attention turned to one of the nation’s most serious drug problems. The council has received major recognition for the $6 million water plant now nearing completion, and it passed a law designed to keep drivers off flooded streets. The council will take a month to consider whether to join other governments in legal action against the pharmaceutical industry, an attempt to recoup the cost related to the nationwide opioid epidemic. City Attorney Russell Cremaldi said he’d been approached by a New Orleans law firm about joining the lawsuit. In ...