It’s Friday, February 8th. The 2018 midterm elections showed that Pennsylvania is a state divided. While a blue wave of Democrats led to gains for the party, a red wave of Republicans solidified their hold on rural areas. Returns from the state’s more than 9,000 precincts show Pennsylvania voters pulling apart from each other based on party and visible geographic lines. Urban areas and their suburbs lined up for Democrats while rural areas are shifting even farther to the right.

It’s Thursday, February 7th. Supervised drug injection sites may now have to fight a legal battle to come to Philly. A U.S. attorney filed a lawsuit to keep Philadelphia from becoming the country’s first city with a supervised injection site. Those are places where people with addiction can use drugs under medical supervision, be revived if they overdose, and access addiction treatment and other social services. The sites are controversial.

It’s Wednesday, February 6th. One State of the Union tradition is the guests who get invited to the speech. Last night’s was no exception. First Lady Melania Trump invited a child named Joshua Trump from Wilmington, Delaware, who says he’s been bullied in school for sharing a last name with the president. Local reps from Pennsylvania and New Jersey used their guests to highlight some of the issues they care most about.

It’s Tuesday, February 5th. Last year, a ProPublica and Inquirer investigation of Pennsylvania police revealed patterns of racial profiling and unlawful arrests. For example, cops pulled over U.S.-born Latinos and asked them if they were in the country legally. Now, those behaviors are outlawed. New Pennsylvania state police regulations went into effect last week. They’re aimed at stopping illegal searches and detentions.

It’s Monday, February 4th. The New England Patriots are Super Bowl champions once again. The 13-to-3 win over the Los Angeles Rams might not have been the most exciting game. But Super Bowl 53 proved to be quite gratifying for Tom Brady. It’s his sixth Super Bowl title and the sixth for the Patriots in the last 18 years. Brady said the win helps to ease the sting of the Patriots’ loss to the Eagles in last year’s big game.

It’s Friday, February 1st. Philly City Councilman Bobby Henon [HEE-nin] was in federal court Thursday and pleaded not guilty to charges that include embezzlement, bribery, and theft. Henon and union boss John Dougherty [DOCKERTY] were indicted Wednesday as part of a federal probe that painted a picture of Henon taking actions on the council at the direction of Dougherty.

It’s Thursday, January 31st. Governor Tom Wolf wants to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage. Republicans in Harrisburg have opposed the governor’s wish for years. And they control both legislative chambers. Wolf hopes to raise the minimum wage to 15-dollars per hour gradually. His plan calls for raising it from 7-dollars-and-25-cents to 12-dollars this year. Then it would increase 50-cents every year until 2025.

It’s Wednesday, January 30th. Philadelphia labor leader John J. Dougherty (DOOR-ITTY), along with City Councilman Bobby Henon and at least three other officers of their union, Local 98, will be charged by federal authorities today. That’s according to two Inquirer sources familiar with the investigation. The specific charges — and the total number of people facing prosecution — were unclear as of Tuesday night.

It’s Tuesday, January 29th. Pennsylvania state Senator Daylin Leach sued a woman Monday over her claims that he sexually assaulted her as a teenager in 1991. Leach calls the account “fictional.” He contends a woman named Cara Taylor and two other women are defaming him. The democrat from Montgomery County is seeking 50-thousand dollars in damages. Senate Democrats have hired an outside law firm to investigate Taylor’s claims.

It’s Monday, January 28th. The mystery of Philadelphia’s missing 33-million dollars has been solved. Consultants hired to find the missing funds scoured years of backed-up accounting books to discover payments made from incorrect accounts, and duplicate entries. The errors made it look like the city’s main cash bank account was short tens of millions of dollars. According to the consultants' report, almost all the money in question has been accounted for.