• The Coalition to Protect Lake Tahoe has been formed to fight development in the basin. Members include the Sierra Club, Friends of the West Shore, Friends of Tahoe Vista, North Tahoe Citizen Action Alliance, North Tahoe Preservation Alliance, Washoe Meadows Community and Earthjustice.

• Nevadans will soon be able to have specialty license plates that benefit the Air Force Thunderbirds and Nevada Health Centers.

• After 55 years, the country’s largest professional organization for physicians, the American Medical Association, will no longer publish its news magazine.

• Through October, Liberty Utilities will pay people $35 to pick up an old refrigerator. For more info, call 877.289.8260.