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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 looks to raise minimum wage to $15 by 2018
Palo Alto joined a regional trend Tuesday when a City Council committee endorsed a minimum wage of $15 per hour starting in 2018.[Wednesday, April 29, 2015]
Slew of changes eyed for Charleston-Arastradero corridor
The Charleston-Arastradero Road corridor in Palo Alto may not be the city's most famous roadway but it is undoubtedly its most controversial. Now, more changes are on the way for the prominent thoroughfare that services 11 local schools.[Tuesday, April 28, 2015]
More action urged to save Buena Vista
With one month left until the final verdict, Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents and their supporters on Monday night made a plea for more city action to prevent the park's closure.[Tuesday, April 28, 2015]
Longer hours proposed for Palo Alto libraries
It may not have a gripping plot, but the City of Palo Alto's latest publication will have local bookworms riveted.[Tuesday, April 28, 2015]
Police: Girl groped in Palo Alto market
Palo Alto police are looking for a man who allegedly followed and groped a 12-year-old girl while she was shopping with her mother at a Stanford Shopping Center food market on Sunday afternoon.[Monday, April 27, 2015]
Police and firefighter unions
For Palo Alto police officers and firefighters, change in compensation can't come soon enough. The salaries of the city's public-safety employees have been largely frozen since the economic downturn, even as their contributions toward their pensions and health care have gone up.[Friday, April 24, 2015]
Management and professional group
They are the city's department heads, supervisors, top technologists and senior analysts. From their perches near the pinnacle of the organization, the roughly 200 people who make up the city's Management and Professional group are responsible for spearheading Palo Alto's most complex and demanding initiatives.[Friday, April 24, 2015]
Service Employees International Union, Local 521
When it comes to employee compensation, the city's lowest earners usually serve as the canaries in the coal mine. The roughly 580 employees represented by the Service Employees International Union, Local 521, are first to feel the pain when the city's revenue picture clouds over. When the skies clear, they are the first to feel the sunlight.[Friday, April 24, 2015]
Payday at City Hall: What's driving Palo Alto's growing payroll?
The signs of success are striking: new libraries, a renovated City Hall, a rebuilt Art Center and a new downtown just a mile and a half south of the old one. But an equally striking economic resurgence has been taking place behind the scenes in City Hall, in the obscure world of budget amendments, reserve funds, salary adjustments and closed-door labor negotiations.[Friday, April 24, 2015]
With losses mounting, Palo Alto to rethink animal services
Dogged by cramped conditions and mounting financial losses, Palo Alto's scrappy but popular animal shelter is once again fighting for its life and prompting conversations about major changes.[Wednesday, April 22, 2015]