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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 strategies for Comprehensive Plan
Under a staff proposal that City Council will consider on Monday, the city could spend another $597,206 on consulting services for work on the city's land-use bible, the Comprehensive Plan.[Thursday, March 13, 2014]
Palo Alto looks to resolve 'retention crisis' with pay raises
With Palo Alto's economic recovery speeding along and tax revenues happily spiking, the city is doing something to try to stem an exodus of workers from its Utilities and Public Works departments.[Thursday, March 13, 2014]
New bike boulevards planned throughout Palo Alto
More than three decades after Palo Alto turned Bryant Street into the nation's first "bicycle boulevard," the city is preparing to create similar corridors on Greer Road, Wilkie Way, Park Boulevard and Stanford Avenue.[Wednesday, March 12, 2014]
Citizens panel to aid city in addressing housing need
Faced with state mandates and market pressures to build more housing, Palo Alto officials are considering a wide range of locations -- from city-owned parking lots to the sprawling site of Fry's Electronics -- to address the city's housing needs.[Tuesday, March 11, 2014]
Palo Alto reaches labor deal with largest union
The labor standoff between the City of Palo Alto and its largest employee union concluded this week when workers voted to accept an offer that raises salaries and aligns local positions with market rates.[Wednesday, March 5, 2014]
Water board deals a blow to flood-control effort
A long-planned effort to protect Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park from the flood-prone San Francisquito Creek suffered a potentially severe setback last week, when the Regional Water Quality Control Board decided after a year of negotiations to reject the permit application for the project.[Tuesday, March 4, 2014]
Palo Alto pushes forward with hotel-tax increase
Seeking to solve the city's once insurmountable infrastructure problem, Palo Alto officials agreed on Monday to put on the November ballot a a measure that would raise the city's hotel-tax rate by 2 percent.[Tuesday, March 4, 2014]
Palo Alto's employee spending went up in 2013
Palo Alto's spending on employee salaries and benefits rose by $2.4 million between 2012 and 2013, despite the city's generally successful efforts to curb the rising costs of benefits and reduce overtime, according to data city officials released Monday.[Monday, March 3, 2014]
Death of police veteran did not halt planned celebration of his life
Dennis Neverve, whose career in the Palo Alto Police Department spanned more than 46 years and included more than 100 commendations, died suddenly Sunday night, just two weeks after he retired from the force and one day before the city was set to pass a resolution in his honor. He was 70.[Monday, March 3, 2014]
Caltrain plan would fell trees, add substations
A new report analyzing the environmental impacts of electrifying the Caltrain rail line indicates that the benefits of cleaner, faster trains will come at a cost beyond the project's $1.5 billion price tag.[Friday, February 28, 2014]