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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 plans to beef up enforcement of new business registry
Palo Alto's new business-registry program rolled off to a rocky start in March, with meager participation and widespread confusion about various questions on the city's registration survey. While the program has seen a significant turnaround at the end of the year, city officials are planning to make some revisions next year to boost participation even further.[Saturday, December 26, 2015]
Palo Alto looks to require all businesses to compost
Making rules for waste disposal can be a messy business in Palo Alto, as the City Council learned last month when it pondered a new law that would require all local businesses to recycle and compost.[Friday, December 25, 2015]
Residents question need for new downtown garage
Palo Alto officials often liken the city's strategy for dealing with the city's parking crisis to a three-legged stool: reduce the demand for driving, make better use of parking structures and increase the supply of garages.[Thursday, December 24, 2015]
Palo Alto police to assist with Super Bowl security
When the 2016 Super Bowl kicks off in Santa Clara on Feb. 7, the crowd of spectators at Levi's Stadium will likely include a few Palo Alto police officers. Unlike in the past, they won't be difficult to spot.[Thursday, December 24, 2015]
Police: East Palo Alto man booked for trying to break into Crescent Park car
An East Palo Alto man who police said was trying to break into a car in Palo Alto's Crescent Park neighborhood early Wednesday morning was arrested after a private-security officer spotted and stopped the attempt.[Saturday, December 19, 2015]
Palo Alto looks to replace cramped fire house
The small wood-framed fire station known as Station 3 made its debut in 1948, the year of the Marshall Plan, Gandhi's assassination, and Dewey's famous non-defeat of Truman for the American presidency. Now, the small and seismically deficient station is about to undergo a long-awaited renovation.[Saturday, December 19, 2015]
City: Human Resources director resigned because of 'changing needs'
The recent resignation of Kathryn Shen from her position as director of the city's Human Resources Department was prompted by the department's "changing needs" and reached by a mutual decision between Shen and City Manager James Keene, according to Keene.[Friday, December 18, 2015]
Palo Alto calls for collaboration in high-speed-rail design
High-speed rail is still more than a decade away from making its first run through the Peninsula, but the controversial project is stirring fresh concerns in Palo Alto, where City Council members are calling for a slower and more inclusive design process.[Friday, December 18, 2015]
Plan for block-long El Camino development fizzles
When Palo Alto officials approved in 2013 a block-long development on El Camino Real featuring 48 apartments, retail and office spaces, they hailed the project as a rare example of a "true mixed-use" project. Two years later, one of the largest commercial projects to win approval in Palo Alto in recent years appears to be dead.[Wednesday, December 16, 2015]
Discovery of toxic chemical prompts changes in Stanford's housing project
A discovery of toxic vapors in the middle of a construction site has prompted Stanford University to redesign portions of its new faculty-housing development on California Avenue.[Wednesday, December 16, 2015]