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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 weighs new limits on office growth
With office developments blooming in Palo Alto and downtown's traffic problems increasingly driving the City Hall agenda, city officials will evaluate on Monday a suite of options for slowing down commercial growth.[Thursday, February 5, 2015]
Rate increases projected for Palo Alto utilities
After holding steady this year, Palo Alto's utility bills are about to embark on an upward climb. According to the most recent staff projections, the city's water, gas and wastewater rates are all facing years of increases.[Thursday, February 5, 2015]
Report highlights Silicon Valley's uneven prosperity
Fueled by a sizzling tech sector, strong population growth and low unemployment, the Silicon Valley economy has grown rapidly since the doldrum days of the 2008 recession. So, however, have the income gaps between the region's wealthiest and poorest residents, between its men and women and between its white and black residents, according to an annual report released Tuesday by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley.[Tuesday, February 3, 2015]
Suspect sought in Baylands beating
Palo Alto police are looking for a man who they said exposed himself to woman in the Baylands and then repeatedly punched her boyfriend in the face, prompting him to momentarily lose consciousness.[Tuesday, February 3, 2015]
In zeal to hear appeal, council butts up against state law
Members of the Palo Alto City Council accidentally ran afoul of state law late last week when they attempted to discuss over email an item that was to come before them on Monday night involving the construction of a two-story home on Corina Way.[Tuesday, February 3, 2015]
Palo Alto council eager to expand city's fiber network
After more than a decade of big dreams and bigger disappointments, Palo Alto officials on Monday resurrected their plan to deliver ultra-high-speed Internet to the city's masses when they approved a pair of contracts that could pave the way for the long-awaited "fiber to the premise" system.[Tuesday, February 3, 2015]
Palo Alto's priorities: land use, health and infrastructure
A new year brought a new cast and a new philosophy to the Palo Alto City Council, but the chronically pressing issues of land use and transportation will continue to draw the lion's share of attention at City Hall in 2015 under a strategy that the council adopted at a retreat Saturday. Infrastructure, promotion of health and completion of the city's Comprehensive Plan also made it to the council's list of priorities for the coming year.[Saturday, January 31, 2015]
Palo Alto looks to raise minimum wage
Citing the sky-high costs of living in Palo Alto, a group of City Council members is leading a push to adopt a local minimum-wage ordinance.[Friday, January 30, 2015]
Palo Alto seeks ideas for new traffic-fighting nonprofit
From Emeryville to Boston, nonprofits called "transportation management associations" have sprung up in the last few decades to expand transit use, encouraging walking and biking and dramatically reduce the percentage of drivers who commute alone. Now, as Palo Alto prepares to launch its own traffic-fighting nonprofit, city officials are looking for inspiration both from other cities and from local businesses and residents.[Thursday, January 29, 2015]
Rob de Geus tapped to lead Community Services Department
Palo Alto didn't have to look long or far to find a new leader for its busy Community Services Department. Rob de Geus, a department veteran who is well known to local golfers, park lovers and community center patrons, was tapped Thursday to serve as the department director.[Thursday, January 29, 2015]