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About Gennady
Gennady Sheyner has been covering Palo Alto since 2008. His beats include City Hall, with a special focus on housing, utilities and transportation. He also covers regional politics for the Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto Online and its sister publications. He has won awards for his coverage of elections, land use, business, technology and breaking news.A native of Ukraine, Gennady grew up in San Francisco and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in English and from Columbia University with a master’s degree in journalism. Prior to joining Embarcadero Media, he spent three years covering breaking news and local politics for The Waterbury Republican-American, a daily newspaper in Connecticut. He is a massive fan of English football, marathons and churros.
Stories by Gennady
Palo Alto eyes three new schools at Cubberley
Palo Alto would build three new schools at Cubberley Community Center as part of a new concept that top city and school officials unveiled late Thursday.[Friday, April 6, 2012]
Changes ahead for Stanford Shopping Center
Stanford Shopping Center would build five new retail buildings, including a "lifestyle" center and a smaller Bloomingdale's department store, under a new plan that aims to bring vibrancy to the Palo Alto mall without requiring any expansion.[Friday, April 6, 2012]
Janitors hold protest march in Palo Alto
Hundreds of janitors took to the streets of Palo Alto with signs and bullhorns Thursday afternoon as part of a regional effort to negotiate a new contract. Photo by Michelle Le/Palo Alto Online.[Thursday, April 5, 2012]
Palo Alto program aims to make energy savings a 'social' affair
Palo Alto residents who keep their energy use low now have something besides lower bills to show for their efforts -- bragging rights. The Utilities Department this week rolled out its latest application for promoting energy conservation -- a Facebook app that allows customers to track and share their energy uses.[Wednesday, April 4, 2012]
New high-speed rail plan has price tag dropping by $30B
California's proposed high-speed rail system would extend from the Central Valley to the Los Angeles Basin within the next decade and would cost $30 billion less than previous estimates indicated under a new business plan that the agency charged with building the system released Monday morning, April 2.[Monday, April 2, 2012]
Hackers swarm 'Super Happy Block Party' in Palo Alto
Hackers, artists, entrepreneurs and self-proclaimed geeks of all stripes staged their own Occupy movement on a downtown block of Palo Alto Saturday afternoon -- though in this case, city officials were in on the game.[Saturday, March 31, 2012]
Art Center renovation to impact traffic on Embarcadero
A portion of Embarcadero Road will be reduced from four to two lanes April 2 through April 6 to accommodate the renovation and expansion of the Palo Alto Art Center.[Friday, March 30, 2012]
Hackers plan to take over downtown Palo Alto block
To the world at large, the word "hackers" is loaded with sinister connotations evoking computer viruses, stolen data and -- thanks to "The Social Network" -- young Ivy Leaguers sabotaging their university servers to rate sorority girls.[Friday, March 30, 2012]
Feature story: Building a 'digital city'
Palo Alto's newfound alliance with hackers is the latest evidence of a philosophical shift that has rumbled through City Hall over the past year. ==B Related story:== • [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=24834 Hackers plan to take over downtown Palo Alto block][Friday, March 30, 2012]
Residents call for changes at Palo Alto rail crossings
Palo Alto's vision for the Caltrain corridor should include better east-west connections and enhancements to busy intersections, but its top priority should be grade separating the rail crossings at East Meadow Drive and Charleston Road, residents told city officials at a packed public hearing Thursday evening.[Thursday, March 29, 2012]