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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 sees good news on financial horizon
Strong local sales, a sizzling housing market and recent labor concessions from City Hall employees have given Palo Alto's elected leaders plenty of reasons to cheer as they head into the holiday season.[Tuesday, December 18, 2012]
Palo Alto finds willing partners in Shanghai
Two weeks after a delegation including Mayor Yiaway Yeh and City Manager James Keene made a pilgrimage to Yangpu, the council voted 8-0 to pursue a series of joint efforts with Palo Alto's new Chinese partner.[Tuesday, December 18, 2012]
Palo Alto poised to embark on trash experiment
Those black carts filled with trash may soon disappear from the curbside of one Palo Alto neighborhood as part of the city's proposed experiment with food scraps and other organic waste.[Friday, December 14, 2012]
Palo Alto in final stage of California Avenue redesign
After two years of revisions, lawsuits and squabbles with area business owners, Palo Alto officials are now putting the finishing touches on their ambitious plan to transform California Avenue into a pedestrian-friendly thoroughfare, with construction set to begin next fall.[Thursday, December 13, 2012]
Palo Alto ponders design of new bike bridge
Emboldened by a $4 million grant and a freshly completed master plan, Palo Alto is rolling ahead with design work on a new bike bridge that would span U.S. Highway 101 and give residents in the south end of the city a year-round connection to the Baylands. ==B Related story:== • [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=27649 Palo Alto, Stanford win $10 million for bike bridge, trails][Wednesday, December 12, 2012]
Parking, infrastructure woes loom large in 2013
The glaring problems of insufficient downtown parking and decaying infrastructure will likely tower over other Palo Alto issues in 2013, according to a list of proposed priorities that each member of the next City Council has recently submitted.[Tuesday, December 11, 2012]
Palo Alto to pay $333,481 in software settlement
Palo Alto officials on Monday authorized a settlement with software company SAP Public Services, which claimed earlier this year that the city owes more than $1 million because of the city's increased use of SAP's software.[Tuesday, December 11, 2012]
City: No more 'island' of homes on commercial block
A string of awkwardly placed homes on a busy stretch of Page Mill Road in Palo Alto could soon make way for a dense new development thanks to a zoning change the City Council approved Monday night, Dec. 10.[Tuesday, December 11, 2012]
Divided council beefs up parking requirements
With downtown residents up in arms about a dearth of parking in their neighborhoods, Palo Alto officials agreed on Monday to suspend for one-year a zoning exemption that lowered the parking requirements for new developments downtown.[Tuesday, December 11, 2012]
Audit finds errors in Palo Alto's health care expenditures
Palo Alto's process for administering health benefits to city workers and retirees is riddled with errors and suffers from insufficient monitoring, according to a critical report from the Office of the City Auditor.[Friday, December 7, 2012]