Alex Heuer
“St. Louis on the Air” Executive ProducerAlex Heuer joined St. Louis Public Radio in 2012 and is the executive producer of St. Louis on the Air. Alex grew up in the St. Louis area. He began his public radio career as a student reporter at Tri States Public Radio in Macomb, Illinois and worked for a few years at Iowa Public Radio. Alex graduated summa cum laude from Western Illinois University with a degree in history and earned a teaching certificate in 6 - 12th grade social studies. In 2016, he earned a Master of Public Policy Administration with a focus in nonprofit organization management and leadership from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has won local and national awards for reporting and producing and his stories have been featured nationally on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
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This Friday marks 75 years since Winston Churchill delivered the famous "Iron Curtain" speech. On "St. Louis on the Air," we talk about the significance of that speech and share details about Churchill's trip to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. -
St. Louis Art Museum curator Hannah Klemm joined "St. Louis on the Air" to discuss the museum's newest exhibition, "Storm of Progress: German Art After 1800." -
St. Louis entrepreneur Akeem Shannon made a deal for his Flipstik invention on ABC's hit show "Shark Tank." He joined "St. Louis on the Air" to talk about the deal and the nerve-wracking experience. -
Missouri Republicans performed exceptionally well on Tuesday. Jean Evans, the Missouri GOP’s executive director, joins "St. Louis on the Air" to discuss the winning strategy that she said boiled down to three things: great candidates, a strong ground game and the Democratic Party’s failure to resonate with Missouri voters. -
Emily Paul encouraged her boyfriend to kill his son. She's serving four months in prison but could serve 10 years if she violates probation. Her case raises interesting legal questions. She was miles away when it happened. Is pressuring someone to do something in a text message enough to net a long prison sentence? Our Legal Roundtable panelists discussed that case and others. -
Emerging ag-tech company Benson Hill opened a new headquarters in St. Louis on Monday. The business is attracting a lot of attention and forging a unique space in the ag-tech ecosystem. We talked on "St. Louis on the Air" with Benson Hill's CEO and president, Matt Crisp. -
Some companies are welcoming workers back to the office. On "St. Louis on the Air," we talked with an architect about how companies are designing or retrofitting their spaces with COVID-19 in mind. -
William H. Danforth, who died on Wednesday at the age of 94, was a guest several times on "St. Louis on the Air." Listen to excerpts of his appearance from February 2008. -
"St. Louis on the Air" host Sarah Fenske talked with Jefferson City statehouse reporter Jaclyn Driscoll about the latest developments making their way through the special session. -
State Sen. Jill Schupp, D-Creve Coeur, wants to unseat Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Ballwin, in Missouri's 2nd Congressional District. Schupp joins "St. Louis on the Air" to talk about why she thinks she's the better candidate in a race that the nonpartisan Cook Political Report now considers a tossup. -
Host Sarah Fenske talked with one of the nation’s foremost experts on the vice presidency, Joel Goldstein. He is a professor of law emeritus at St. Louis University School of Law and the author of “The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden.” -
Earlier this summer, Missouri paleontologist David Schmidt and a small team unearthed a rare triceratops skull in the South Dakota Badlands. Schmidt describes what the excavation process was like and what he and his fellow researchers hope to learn from the bones of the dinosaur they named “Shady.”
