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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
Consultant hired to help Palo Alto with social-media updates
With Palo Alto's social-media efforts in full bloom, the City Council approved spending $160,000 on a consultant who will help manage the city's Twitter feeds, YouTube clips and Facebook updates as well as train workers in how to effectively use these tools.[Friday, December 12, 2014]
Changing the conversation: Who, or what, is Palo Alto Forward?
Few local residents had heard of Palo Alto Forward before Sept. 30, when Cory Wolbach declared at a City Council candidates' forum that he was a member. Despite the group's sudden rise, confusion abounds about what exactly the group stands for.[Friday, December 12, 2014]
Palo Alto to explore incentives for slashing natural-gas use
After cutting carbon out of the city's electric supply, Palo Alto officials are now fixing their sights on the next frontier in their battle against global warming: a reduction of natural gas.[Saturday, December 13, 2014]
Palo Alto looks to regulate Airbnb rentals
With hotel-tax revenues on a happy upswing, Palo Alto officials are preparing to take aim at one source of competition for local hotels: Airbnb and other services that allow visitors to rent rooms directly from homeowners.[Thursday, December 11, 2014]
Office surge expected to continue in downtown Palo Alto
It's no secret that downtown Palo Alto is going through an office boom, a trend that has achieved a particular poignancy over the past year. A new study suggests that the growth isn't expected to abate any time soon.[Wednesday, December 10, 2014]
Palo Alto to hold summit to develop new growth vision
Palo Alto's frustrating eight-year climb toward adopting a new land-use vision is now heading for a summit -- a community meeting in May where residents and council members will go over reams of recently collected data about growth and try to hash out where the city should go from here.[Wednesday, December 10, 2014]
Palo Alto managers get raises under new contract
More than 200 managers and professionals in Palo Alto received raises on Monday night under a plan that also sets a cap on the city's contribution for employee medical benefits.[Tuesday, December 9, 2014]
County set to approve new trails around Stanford campus
A proposal by Stanford University and the City of Palo Alto to install new recreational trails along the major thoroughfares near the university's campus and to shift the parking alignment near the Dish will be reviewed Thursday morning by Santa Clara County's Architecture and Site Approval Committee.[Tuesday, December 9, 2014]
Palo Alto halts plan for a local compost plant
The long-running debate over the future of composting in Palo Alto reached a temporary truce Monday night, when the City Council agreed that now is not the time to build a local composting facility.[Tuesday, December 9, 2014]
Palo Alto: Miki proposed as new grocer at former JJ&F market
Miki Werness, whose Alma Village market shuttered in April 2013 after less than six months of operation, may soon get another chance in College Terrace.[Monday, December 8, 2014]