USA TODAY: Members of the Senate Foreign Relations committee hammered out a deal on Tuesday evening that would set a 60-day deadline for military action in Syria, with one 30-day extension possible, according to a draft of the resolution…

“President Obama hasn’t been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn’t been elected by the people of Russia to be pleasant to someone either. We work, we argue about some issues. We are human. Sometimes one of us gets vexed. But I would like to repeat once again that global mutual interests form a good basis for finding a joint solution to our problems.”

A series of hearings on the Corbett Administration’s highly complicated Harrisburg debt bailout plan has been scheduled for this and next week before Harrisburg City Council.

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Editorial: …Today, only 6.6 percent of private-sector employees belong to unions, compared with about 35 percent in the 1950s. Public-sector membership fell slightly last year, to 36 percent, compared with 37 percent in 2011.

An Intelligencer Journal editorial entitled “The taste of success” appeared on August 31 which, perhaps due to the holiday, has not yet been posted at LancasterOnLine.com.

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: … This year, with a dearth of competitive races for local offices, the political focus has shifted forward a year, to the contest where Tom Corbett, the state’s currently unpopular governor, will defend his tenure and the decades-old pattern of the major parties trading control of the governor’s mansion every eight years. A handful of the members of the large Democratic field vying to challenge Mr. Corbett will be working the crowd at the parade, highlighting the early start to the 2014 competition.

These people from out of town who attend the convention center events and stay at the Lancaster Newspapers’s Marriott Hotel would never use an escort service. If anyone did, security would not permit them in the front door since the girls or guys can be distinguished by the scarlet letter burned into their foreheads.

This was a deliberate—and deeply radical—decision about who is in charge of most drug enforcement. “The thrust is that they will allow the state of Washington to be the principal law-enforcement agent in this regard,” Inslee said. That is, for the first time, the president and head of the US Department of Justice have chosen to hand over the reins on major, controversial drug-control policy to the states.

Scott Martin undertook the task of “walking where Angels fear to tread” by conducting negotiations with Wells Fargo Bank to try to redress the foolish financing terms that the sponsors of the Convention Center Project agreed to in order to maximize the amount of funds that could be borrowed.

USA TODAY: …The automaker says the system, called “Super Cruise,” uses radar and cameras to steer the car and keep it between lane lines. Also, the radar keeps the car a safe distance from cars ahead of it, and it will brake to a complete stop if necessary.

Many former players with neurological conditions believe their problems stem from on-field concussions. The lawsuits accused the league of hiding known risks of concussions for decades to return players to games and protect its image…

But with the botched intelligence about Iraq still casting a long shadow over decisions about waging war in the Middle East, the White House faces an American public deeply skeptical about being drawn into the Syrian conflict and a growing chorus of lawmakers from both parties angry about the prospect of an American president once again going to war without Congressional consultation or approval…

Article “Harrisburg incinerator sale raises environmental concerns” starts out as though it will at long last address the serious issue of whether the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA) is exposing Lancaster County residents to a future big jump in trash collection fees should it acquire the Harrisburg incinerator and the Department of Environmental Protection require a ‘clean up’ at a future date.

The lobbying firm at the center of former Harrisburg Receiver David Unkovic’s call for a criminal investigation of Harrisburg’s debt problems gave the political committees of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett more than $55,000 over the last decade, state records show.