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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
Uncertainty over Hostess House clouds El Camino Park design
When Palo Alto broke ground in October 2011 on construction of an underground reservoir at El Camino Park, the goal was to complete the work and have the park re-opened to sports teams by this summer. But while the utilities work is proceeding on schedule, the design of the new El Camino Park remains up in the air.[Wednesday, April 24, 2013]
Concerns over police building hold up meeting on proposed development
Palo Alto has postponed a public hearing on Jay Paul's massive development proposal after learning last week that the main public benefit of the proposal -- a new police station -- isn't shaking out as the city had hoped.[Tuesday, April 23, 2013]
Palo Alto lands airport manager
Palo Alto has yet to take over the operations of its namesake airport, but it has already hired the man who will be in charge of steering the small but bustling facility to success. The city announced Monday that it has tapped Andrew J. Swanson, former manager of Nut Tree Airport in Solano County, to be the the city's first airport manager.[Monday, April 22, 2013]
Palo Alto scraps 'premature' closed session on Cubberley
The City Council's closed-session discussion on the future of Cubberley Community Center was abruptly canceled Monday night after members of the community protested that the controversial subject deserves more transparency and public input.[Monday, April 22, 2013]
Swelling cash reserves fuel Palo Alto's fiber effort
Palo Alto officials won't be popping champagne bottles this week, when their long-deferred dream of a citywide high-speed Internet finally comes true. That's because the dream will be coming true in Provo, Utah, a city that doesn't claim to be the technological capital of the universe and that hadn't spent the better part of the past two decades watching one effort after another end in heartbreak.[Monday, April 22, 2013]
Higher water use still a challenge for Palo Alto
Palo Alto officials had more reasons than usual to smile this Earth Day, with the city recently switching to carbon-free electricity and dramatically cutting its greenhouse-gas emissions. But the annual celebration is also casting a spotlight on the one blight on the city's pristine environmental reputation -- water usage that remains among the highest in the region.[Monday, April 22, 2013]
Eshoo to host Saturday meeting on gun control
The topic of gun legislation, and the Senate's failure this week to pass a bill to strengthen the nation's gun laws, will be the subject of a Saturday community meeting hosted by U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo in Palo Alto.[Friday, April 19, 2013]
Police nab suspect in Saturday's bank robbery
Palo Alto police have made an arrest in connection with Saturday's bank robbery on El Camino Real after tips from two other law-enforcement agencies led officers to the suspect at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care Systems on Tuesday morning.[Wednesday, April 17, 2013]
Palo Alto urged not to fund a Catholic nonprofit
With Catholic Charities facing allegations of discrimination from gay-rights advocates in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., Palo Alto officials found themselves debating on Tuesday night whether the organization's local chapter should continue to draw grant funding from the city.[Wednesday, April 17, 2013]
Palo Alto nears deal on paying for golf course revamp
As Palo Alto plows ahead with a complete overhaul of its Baylands golf course, city officials are finding themselves balancing the ambitious renovation plan against a broader effort to improve flood control around the San Francisquito Creek.[Wednesday, April 17, 2013]