IKEA is just a memory here, but the political activism sparked by the furniture store's proposal is very much alive.
At another corporate giant, Wal-Mart Stores, a proposal from a small group of workers appeared on this year's proxy.
Among the steps Republican leaders there are pondering: privatizing the state's 600-plus liquor stores, a proposal that would potentially bring $2 billion for state coffers, but also layoffs of several thousand state workers.
A clearer indication of how workers feel about the stores' contract proposal might be how many of them show up to cast a ballot through Tuesday, when members of some locals will vote.
And recently, the City Council in the Dallas suburb of Garland voted unanimously against allowing a Mercado Azteca to open in a former Kmart store after the proposal drew complaints from local homeowners.
But Mr. Idoni, who has not stated publicly whether he will vote to approve the store when the proposal comes before the City Council, said the series of public hearings "does work in bringing a lot of questions to the forefront, and there are still dozens of questions to be answered".
Under the proposal, stores would have to sell reusable shopping bags and could stock only plastic bags emblazoned with the message, "Please return this bag to a participating store for recycling" in letters at least three inches tall.
He said he would oppose any proposal to store the materials in the Hudson Valley area.
That was a Home Office proposal to store every website you have ever visited for a whole year.
A proposal to store surplus Colorado River water beneath the Mojave Desert and pump it to Southern California during drought years was narrowly rejected today by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
