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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 of Palo Alto website gets a brand new look
After years of tweaks, complaints and frustrations, the City of Palo Alto's freshly redesigned website officially went live Tuesday morning. The redesigned website, which remains at www.cityofpaloalto.org, includes a host of new features.[Wednesday, July 18, 2012]
Yiaway Yeh won't seek second City Council term
Yiaway Yeh, who this year became the second-youngest mayor in Palo Alto's history, announced Tuesday that he will not seek a second term on the City Council. ==B Related stories:== • [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=26100 Pat Burt to run for second Palo Alto City Council term] • [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=26083 Sid Espinosa will not seek second term on City Council][Tuesday, July 17, 2012]
Professorville parking program rejected
Professorville residents looking to reclaim the parking spots on their streets from downtown employees will have to cope with status quo for at least six more months after the City Council shot down Tuesday morning a proposed parking-permit program for the historic Palo Alto neighborhood.[Tuesday, July 17, 2012]
Berman rakes in contributions for City Council race
Attorney Marc Berman received a major lift in his fledgling campaign for a seat on the Palo Alto City Council, raking in more than $22,000 in early contributions, campaign-finance documents show.[Tuesday, July 17, 2012]
Coliform bacteria taints Palo Alto water
When Palo Alto's utility officials were testing customers' water quality in May they uncovered something strange -- an unusually high amount of coliform bacteria, a bacteria that is generally considered to be nonthreatening but that can indicate the presence of other unsavory organisms.[Saturday, July 14, 2012]
Pat Burt to run for second Palo Alto City Council term
Pat Burt, who served as Palo Alto's mayor in 2010 and who has been a central player in the city's opposition to high-speed rail, plans to seek another term on the City Council.[Friday, July 13, 2012]
State investments take a bite out of local budgets
In the grand old days of the mid-2000s, few people talked about California's out-of-control public pensions.[Friday, July 13, 2012]
Pensions: Palo Alto's ticking time bomb
In 2007, the year Warren Buffett famously described public pensions as a time bomb with a long fuse, Palo Alto officials decided to add a little gunpowder to the city's benefits package. ==B Related story:== • [http://paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=26090 State investments take a bite out of local budgets][Friday, July 13, 2012]
Critics of high-speed rail prepare for next chapter
California's contentious drive to build a high-speed-rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles sped ahead last week, when state lawmakers approved funding for the first construction phase. But the $68 billion project still has to pass through a gauntlet of legal, financial and political obstacles before it becomes reality.[Friday, July 13, 2012]
Sid Espinosa will not seek second term on City Council
After four years on the Palo Alto City Council, Sid Espinosa is preparing for the next chapter in his life. Espinosa, who in 2011 became the fourth youngest mayor in the city's history, announced today that he will not be seeking a second term.[Thursday, July 12, 2012]