Marty Davis with the Fredericksburg Advance shares a special experience with his daughter leaving the nest, and how sometimes things unsaid matter more than the things said.

Chris Allen is the executive director for Fredericksburg Mainstreet and the owner of Duly Noted -- Virginia's premier store for stationary, greeting cards, and pens. Chris shares with us the vision for a renewed Market Square (with markets!), what Jail Alley might look like as a small business incubator, and a conversation on how Renwick Courthouse could anchor Fredericksburg's sense of self.

Dr. Craig Vasey is the former professor of philosophy for Mary Washington University and president of the Fredericksburg-Frejus Sister City Association, which is heading up the bi-centennial for General Lafayette's visit to Fredericksburg. Vasey shares his thoughts on D-Day, democracy, and critical theory as applied to present day questions.

Hank Silverberg is a veteran reporter and Virginia mainstay, best known for his multi-year presence on WTOP in northern Virginia. Silverberg shares his experiences in the media, how the landscape has changed, and how Virginia (and her politics) has changed over the last two decades.

Chris Yakabouski is Supervisor for the Battlefield District for Spotsylvania County and shares his multi-decade experience with local government, regional growth, the link between land use and transportation spending, and future challenges.

Scott Mayausky serves as the Commissioner of Revenue for Stafford County and explains why Virginia's cumbersome method of taxing through localities is so complicated, how it works, and how regressive taxation leans heaviest on those who can least afford it.

Clay Jones is an editorial cartoonist whose work has been seen on CNN and who is remembered in Virginia for his work with the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. Clay talks about his unlikely path to success, his inimitable dislike of all things Trump... and the origins of his iconic Pizza Rat.

David Keene is the co-founder of the Fredericksburg Workshop, a non-profit which exists to support woodworkers, carpenters, craft, and all sorts of hands-on experiences with tools most of us otherwise can't afford. Unless you're a member of the Fredericksburg Workshop, that is! Plus, the inevitable adolescent wood joke.

Martha Hutzel serves as director for the Central Rappahannock Regional Library where she shares how libraries are about so much more than books, the history of CRRL's role in ending segregation, and how libraries still offer and embody the true spirit of a Jeffersonian democracy.

Water, sewer, gas, electric... internet? Marty, Shaun, & Cori discuss the ins-and-outs of data centers and how interconnectivity is changing our communities, why the clean energy conversation is more physics than politics, and how Virginia's answers to clean energy may have to come in the form of nuclear power.