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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 in 'uncharted' territory on compost
The future of organic waste in Palo Alto remains hazy, but city officials hope to solve this messy and divisive dilemma by early 2014 and are now looking to the free market for help.[Thursday, October 18, 2012]
Plea for suspect in Jobs burglary pushed to November
Kariem McFarlin, the Alameda man charged with burglarizing the Palo Alto home of the late Steve Jobs, made a brief court appearance Wednesday morning but did not enter plea.[Wednesday, October 17, 2012]
Palo Alto braces for turnover at City Hall
With work habits shifting and employee benefits under fire, Palo Alto is bracing for an exodus of workers from City Hall over the next five years and scrambling to find new ways to attract and retain young employees.[Wednesday, October 17, 2012]
Palo Alto beefs up rules for downtown parking
A Palo Alto law that relaxed parking regulations for developers with downtown projects began its transition from the city's zoning code to its history books Monday night after the City Council passed an "urgency ordinance" temporarily halting it.[Tuesday, October 16, 2012]
City looks to tighten parking requirements downtown
When Palo Alto officials decided to ease the parking rules for downtown developers nearly three decades ago, they did not envision the drought of parking spots that today plagues the streets in the heart of the city.[Friday, October 12, 2012]
Ballot measure: Palo Alto sucked into statewide marijuana debate
After wafting through Los Angeles, San Jose and Oakland, California's cloudy debate over marijuana law will drift into Palo Alto next month, when voters consider whether to allow three dispensaries to open shop in the city.[Friday, October 12, 2012]
Senate race: Hill, Lieber gear up for final battle
Flush with cash, endorsements and legislative accomplishments, state Assemblyman Jerry Hill is riding a wave of momentum in his quest for the state Senate seat in the 13th District.[Friday, October 12, 2012]
Palo Alto plows ahead with more pension reforms
Palo Alto's effort to curb the exploding costs of employee benefits will hit a milestone this week, when the City Council officially reduces pension benefits for newly hired police officers and mulls other, more dramatic reforms aimed at shrinking the city's liabilities. ==B Related story:== [http://paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=26088 Pensions: Palo Alto's ticking time bomb][Friday, October 12, 2012]
Palo Alto mulls changes to building-height limits
Faced with a stampede of massive new developments, Palo Alto officials are taking a fresh look at the zoning code and considering whether it's time to puncture the city's 50-foot height limit for new buildings -- a critical provision that has guided local development for nearly four decades.[Wednesday, October 10, 2012]
Palo Alto hires new fire chief
Palo Alto's rapidly changing Fire Department now has a new leader. The city has hired Eric Nickel, currently the deputy fire chief in the Novato Fire District, to lead its fire operation.[Tuesday, October 9, 2012]