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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 upgrade utility tax
Nearly three decades after Palo Alto established a tax on utilities and phone usage, city officials are preparing to "modernize" this tax to account for the rise of the cell phone and the demise of the landline.[Tuesday, March 25, 2014]
New Palo Alto museum faces funding gap
Palo Alto's history buffs and high-tech visionaries have no shortage of plans, dreams and ambitions when it comes to building a museum celebrating the city's rich history of innovation. They do, however, have a shortage of cash -- a big problem that has stymied the effort for several years and is now stumping city officials.[Tuesday, March 25, 2014]
Palo Alto agrees to add land to Foothills Park
After three decades of languishing in obscurity, a flat parcel near Foothills Park is about to become the newest addition to Palo Alto's expanse of parkland and, quite possibly, a scenic entryway into the hilly preserve.[Tuesday, March 25, 2014]
Three top Palo Alto officials to get raises
Days after Palo Alto officials approved pay raises for the lowest-paid city workers, a City Council committee has proposed spreading the rewards to three employees in the top tier -- City Manager James Keene, City Attorney Molly Stump and City Clerk Donna Grider.[Friday, March 21, 2014]
Palo Alto mulls ending its lease of downtown transit center
A long-standing agreement between Palo Alto, Stanford University and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency for the site around the downtown Caltrain station may soon come to an end, as all three agencies weigh new plans for the critical hub at the gateway between the city and the university.[Friday, March 21, 2014]
Palo Alto growth brings traffic angst to Los Altos Hills
Spurred by a popular outcry over planned traffic signals at the busy interchange of Interstate 280 and Page Mill Road, Los Altos Hills officials on Thursday challenged the logic behind the proposal and vowed to bring residents' concerns to Caltrans, which is spearheading the project.[Friday, March 21, 2014]
Architecture panel signs off on Stanford's housing proposal
As College Terrace residents prepare to welcome a new housing community for Stanford University faculty into their eclectic neighborhood, many are concerned that the traffic generated by the new houses will disrupt and congest local streets.[Thursday, March 20, 2014]
Palo Alto police embrace new recording technology
If you see a Palo Alto police cruiser passing by, the odds are that the cruiser can also see you, even if the officers inside are gazing in the opposite direction.[Thursday, March 20, 2014]
Palo Alto mulls dedicating new parkland
A long forgotten and largely abandoned parcel of city-owned land next to Foothills Park could be spruced up and added to Palo Alto's verdant empire of dedicated parkland under a proposal offered this week by three City Council members.[Wednesday, March 19, 2014]
City charts new path toward updating Comprehensive Plan
After a meandering eight-year slog, Palo Alto officials agreed on Monday night to bring a fresh approach to upgrading the city's land-use bible, the Comprehensive Plan. This means more outreach, more data and -- perhaps most crucially -- a deadline.[Tuesday, March 18, 2014]