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Mark Ballard: Successful fight against Formosan termites started with an earmark

Por: The Advocate Politics May 14, 2023

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WASHINGTON — When he read in the that the numbers of Formosan termites are declining, lobbyist Bob Livingston said he first thought of the tunnels chewed through a piece of hardwood cypress tossed on his desk in 1997. Mostly, though, his thoughts centered on “earmarks,” one of which largely funded a 25-year-old project that slowed the spread of the pests that once threatened to eat the French Quarter. “It goes to the point that earmarks... + full article



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