Earmarks — or what lawmakers these days prefer to call “community investments” — will return to South Carolina next week when the S.C. Senate takes up its version of the $15 billion 2026-2027 state budget that passed the S.C. House last month. These controversial spending items, which essent ially boil down to legislator-directed spending on in-district […] The post Earmarks return to the S.C. budget debate next week appeared first on Charleston City Paper. ...read more read less