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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
Samsung opens new chapter for old Borders building
Palo Alto's iconic Varsity Theatre building on University Avenue, most recently a home to Borders Books, will soon be transformed into an idea lab for Samsung.[Wednesday, June 12, 2013]
City finds fault with application for Buena Vista's conversion
The owner of Palo Alto's only trailer park home must go back to the drawing board in his quest to redevelop the site after the city determined that the application he submitted is incomplete.[Tuesday, June 11, 2013]
Huge crowd, no ruling on divisive Maybell development
Palo Alto's most intense zoning battle in years will have to wait at least three more days for a resolution after the City Council decided Monday night to postpone a vote on the controversial senior-housing development proposed for Maybell Avenue.[Tuesday, June 11, 2013]
Palo Alto treads cautiously toward new downtown garage
Everyone agrees that downtown Palo Alto is facing a parking crisis, but the city's latest solution to the problem -- a new five-story garage built in partnership with a private developer -- was blasted on Monday by some residents, downtown merchants and council members as an ill-advised and short-sighted giveaway of public land.[Monday, June 10, 2013]
Council to rule on divisive senior-housing plan
After two emotional public meetings, Palo Alto officials are preparing to make a major ruling tonight on a development that has stirred anxieties and stoked anger around south Palo Alto -- a project that includes 60 senior-housing units and 15 single-family homes near the intersection of Maybell and Clemo avenues.[Monday, June 10, 2013]
Tech events aim to hack away at the gender gap
[Friday, June 7, 2013]
Palo Alto civic hackathon aims to spur innovation
From lasers and marshmallow shooters to tech workshops and TED-style talks, Palo Alto's colorful and eclectic celebration of hacking had something for just about every one of the roughly 5,000 visitors who spread out around Lytton Plaza during the National Day of Civic Hacking on June 1.[Friday, June 7, 2013]
Palo Alto sees signs of hope in infrastructure poll
For Palo Alto officials, the old line, "No good deed goes unpunished," rings particularly true these days. A survey that the City Council discussed Thursday indicates that city residents think the city is doing such a good job maintaining infrastructure that it doesn't really need the voters' help.[Thursday, June 6, 2013]
Palo Alto police tech guru tapped for state board
Palo Alto Police Department's leading technology expert has been tapped by Gov. Jerry Brown to serve on an advisory board charged with improving California's emergency communications. Charles Cullen, who has been serving as the Police Department's technical services director since 2008, will join nine other public-safety experts on the California State 9-1-1 Advisory Board.[Wednesday, June 5, 2013]
Salary bumps a tough sell in proposed budget
Despite a brightening budget forecast, Palo Alto officials indicated Monday that they are in no rush to raise employee salaries that have been largely flat since the outset of the Great Recession.[Tuesday, June 4, 2013]