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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 company tackles toxic plumes
Palo Alto resident Bob Wenzlau may be best known locally as the pioneer of the city's curbside recycling program and a leading advocate for a new compost facility, but in recent months he and his company, Terradex, shifted their focus to a different type of waste: the contaminants buried under industrial sites throughout Silicon Valley.[Friday, May 9, 2014]
Smaller council, other reforms eyed for Palo Alto ballot
Palo Alto's already crowded November ballot could soon see more expansion as the City Council considers asking voters to approve longer term limits for members, to reduce the number of seats from nine to seven and to conduct swearing-in ceremonies earlier in the year.[Thursday, May 8, 2014]
Palo Alto mulls new fees for emergency medical services
Palo Alto may soon create fees for emergency services that involve medical treatment but do not include a trip to the emergency room.[Thursday, May 8, 2014]
Palo Alto to add fees for new developments
No one doubts that the City of Palo Alto spends more on public safety and City Hall services due to its ballooning daytime population of workers. Yet the effort to recover costs for employees' use of city services is tricky, a City Council committee discovered Tuesday.[Wednesday, May 7, 2014]
With revenues up, Palo Alto looks to beef up workforce
Riding the wave of a booming economy, City Manager James Keene on Tuesday unveiled a proposed budget for the coming year that adds 17 new positions to the city's workforce, including additional staffing in the Library, Planning and Community Services departments.[Tuesday, May 6, 2014]
Palo Alto looks beyond City Hall for its vision
Few Palo Alto residents have the time and appetite to come to City Hall for discussions about the future, unless that future includes new buildings going up on their blocks or parking spaces disappearing from their neighborhoods. On Monday, the City Council approved a plan that would, in a sense, bring City Hall to the residents.[Tuesday, May 6, 2014]
Mitchell Park Library set to open in the fall
Palo Alto's botched and beleaguered reconstruction of the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center is now set conclude in November, when the city's largest branch will finally open its doors to the public.[Friday, May 2, 2014]
Sign exceptions approved for 'Lytton Gateway'
The Lytton Gateway building that will soon open at the intersection of Alma Street and Lytton Avenue in Palo Alto became on Thursday the latest in a wave of projects to receive permission from the city to exceed sign regulations.[Thursday, May 1, 2014]
'Grand' vision for El Camino clashes with reality in Palo Alto
The Planning and Transportation Commission heard Wednesday a presentation on the regional initiative to transform El Camino Real, a state highway, into a vibrant chain of neighborhood centers where drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians can safely intermingle.[Thursday, May 1, 2014]
City of Palo Alto to capture business info
Facing a job boom of immense but mysterious proportions, Palo Alto officials voted late Tuesday to create an online registry that will require all local companies to provide employee data to the city.[Wednesday, April 30, 2014]