We want to bring you some more issues we tackled this week that we bumped in the wake of the news about Illinois pay-to-play scandal. Tell Me More has been following Zimbabwe's unfolding political and humanitarian crisis throughout the past year (including this interview with Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer). The latest of Zimbabwe's afflictions is a cholera epidemic -- an epidemic that President Robert Mugabe says is now contained. Many advocacy groups think otherwise and fear the outbreak will claim many more than the 800 lives already lost.

Here's an interview with Frank Donoghue, the CEO of Physicians for Human Rights, who explains what cholera is and discusses the extent of the epidemic:

We're working on following up on this story next week.

We are also working on more coverage of these tough economic times. To be honest with you, we had actually already planned to cover the issue of churches and other religious institutions having to lay people off because of tough economic times even before we got our own bad news. We were weighing it against a story about the split in the Anglican Church, and another story about the ongoing issue of how churches view same-sex marriage and civil unions, and what the Scriptural instructions are. We were weighing availability of guests and all that, and that's how it came out.

And, yes we are planning some holiday cheer- we need some! We'll come up with some. And we still need your suggestions about parenting books that made a difference to you. We want to talk more about books next week in our moms segment.

We're also trying to sort ourselves for inauguration coverage. The logistics are no joke. We have to figure out how to get any guests we may want to invite into our studios or offsite locations on a day when millions of extra folks, I mean, uh, welcome guests, are expected to be in town.

Have a good weekend. We're going to nurse our bruised psyches.

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12:59 - December 12, 2008

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