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Have Your Heard?

10/30/26. Co-Host–Josh Silver

Max Page with author, education expert and host of the podcast “Have You Heard” Jennifer Berkshire on the politics of education today — here and across the country.

The state ballot questions. All nine of them. Josh Silver, Max Page and Bill Newman share their opinions and positions. Spoiler alert: they don’t agree.

A house is not necessarily a home. Josh Silver reviews the polls and prognostications on the races that will determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives. He shares his prediction.

As for the U.S. Senate –there are nail-biters across the electoral map, including Nebraska (!) Alaska, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, New Hampshire, Texas, and Minnesota. Could Dems actually take South Carolina? Will candidates on the left take enough votes away from Democrats to cost them elections and control of the Senate? Josh Silver reports.

ArtBeat with Sondra Peron, Professor and Program Director of the Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at STCC, with STCC’s Lynn Sisler on “the Exquisite Corpse”– come draw and play and see. It is surreal–literally.

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