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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
City Council aims for less talk, more action
The topic of too much talking at City Council meetings has become an irksome problem for Palo Alto's council members, prompting lots of talk about the need to talk less.[Friday, February 8, 2013]
Palo Alto sends massive office proposal back to drawing board
An ambitious proposal to build a dense office complex next to the AOL building on Page Mill Road received a cool reception Wednesday night from the Planning and Transportation Commission, which directed the developer to come back with a stronger package of public benefits.[Wednesday, February 6, 2013]
Building eyed for busy Palo Alto intersection
A vacant Palo Alto parking lot on the prominent intersection of El Camino Real and Page Mill Road would make way for a four-story commercial building under a new proposal from the company that has recently purchased the site from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA).[Wednesday, February 6, 2013]
Palo Alto treads toward health care reform
As medical costs continue to soar, Palo Alto officials are exploring ways to revamp the health care plans the city offers to its employees and retirees -- an effort that is already creating anxiety and threats of lawsuits from labor unions.[Tuesday, February 5, 2013]
Palo Alto's 2013 priorities: infrastructure, downtown, technology
Casting aside years of broad, vague and feel-good "priorities," Palo Alto officials on Saturday selected infrastructure repairs, technological improvements and the myriad issues surrounding downtown development as the topics that will dominate the city's attention in 2013.[Saturday, February 2, 2013]
Stockton man arrested for indecent exposure in Palo Alto
Palo Alto police today arrested a Stockton man who they say pulled down his shorts and exposed himself to a woman in Downtown North Thursday. Richard Kelly McCloskey was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail after he allegedly returned to the Everett Court block where the Thursday incident occurred.[Friday, February 1, 2013]
City responds to parking woes on Edgewood Drive
Prompted by a flurry of complaints from Edgewood Drive residents about safety, litter, and an influx of cars from East Palo Alto residents across the bridge, Palo Alto has responded with new parking restrictions and road improvements near Newell Road.[Friday, February 1, 2013]
Traffic, housing top list of citizen concerns
Traffic congestion and a dearth of affordable housing continue to frustrate Palo Alto residents, even as most of them continue to give the city rave reviews when it comes to overall quality of life, a new survey shows.[Friday, February 1, 2013]
Council looks to swear in new members earlier
Seeking to solve what they call "legal and practical problems," two members of the Palo Alto City Council are urging their colleagues to be more expedient in swearing in newly elected members.[Thursday, January 31, 2013]
City racks up costs as Cal Ave streetscape project evolves
When Palo Alto officials unanimously approved in 2011 a controversial plan to reduce lanes and make a host of streetscape improvements to a commercial strip of California Avenue, they heralded the $1.7 million project as one that would transform the area into a new University Avenue or Mountain View's Castro Street.[Wednesday, January 30, 2013]