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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 councilmembers want wider sidewalks
Unpopular developments in Palo Alto come in all shapes and sizes, but they tend to have one irksome quality in common -- sidewalks that many resident believe are far too narrow.[Thursday, April 11, 2013]
Palo Alto looks to retain fraud hotline
A hotline that Palo Alto set up on a trial basis last year to give City Hall whistleblowers a tool to report fraud, waste and abuse should be kept in place permanently, a City Council committee decided Tuesday night.[Thursday, April 11, 2013]
Palo Alto to amp up recruitment for commissions
Serving on a citizen commission in Palo Alto may look to an outsider like a thankless labor of love, full of wonky public hearings, PowerPoint slides and constant reminders that some residents will inevitably be upset at the end of the day. Now, with applications on the wane and vacancies on the rise, the city is looking to show its volunteers that they are needed and appreciated.[Tuesday, April 9, 2013]
Palo Alto to revamp public-art program
Will Palo Alto's wave of developments usher in a public-art Renaissance? City officials certainly hope so, and on Monday night they took a step toward making it happen.[Tuesday, April 9, 2013]
Palo Alto moves to protect retail on downtown block
Palo Alto officials turned back the zoning clock on an eclectic downtown block Monday night when they passed a law requiring property owners to devote ground-floor space to retail.[Monday, April 8, 2013]
Ronald McDonald House expansion scores victory
A proposal to more than double the size of the Ronald McDonald House in Palo Alto scored a major victory Thursday morning when the city's Architectural Review Board signed off on the project.[Thursday, April 4, 2013]
Palo Alto considers recycled water for irrigation
Depending on which member of the City Council talking, switching to recycled water for irrigation at Stanford Research Park would either be a giant step for Palo Alto's water-conservation efforts or an ill-advised measure that would degrade the condition of the soil.[Thursday, April 4, 2013]
Palo Alto looks to welcome more public art
Palo Alto has no shortage of eye-catching public art, from "Digital DNA," a giant egg covered with silicon chips that adorns Lytton Plaza, to California Avenue's quirky "Go Mama" sculpture, which features a running "mama" with a baby face for a torso. Now, the city is considering ways to encourage more art.[Wednesday, April 3, 2013]
Cities look to install flood-warning system for creek
Residents near the San Francisquito Creek received their latest wake-up call from the fickle creek on Dec. 23, when a heavy rain storm caused the creek to spill onto Highway 101 in East Palo Alto and nearly overflow the Pope-Chaucer Bridge in Palo Alto. Now, officials from these cities are trying to make sure that the next rain storm will be more predictable.[Tuesday, April 2, 2013]
Palo Alto moves to support same-sex marriage
Palo Alto officials enthusiastically jumped into the national debate over same-sex marriage on Monday night when they passed a resolution opposing Proposition 8 and agreed to fly the rainbow flag in front of City Hall.[Monday, April 1, 2013]