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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 looks to rein in rising benefit costs
Palo Alto's debate over the rising costs of employee benefits is about to get much more public. The City Council on Monday scheduled a public hearing for September to discuss the city's rising pension and health care costs and to formulate a "benefits strategy" aimed at curbing these costs.[Tuesday, July 3, 2012]
City adopts plan to revamp waste operations
As Palo Alto prepares to dramatically overhaul how it handles its waste, city officials and residents remain at odds over the future of local composting and processing of food scraps and sewage sludge. The City Council adopted an "action plan" Monday night aimed at bringing the vexing question closer to a solution.[Tuesday, July 3, 2012]
Palo Alto hopes to settle compost dilemma by 2014
The future of Palo Alto's composting services probably won't be settled until at least early 2014 as the city prepares to perform a series of complex studies and survey its options for a possible waste-to-energy plant in the Baylands.[Friday, June 29, 2012]
Harold Hohbach's 'Park Plaza' project wins approval
After years of litigation, appeals, revisions and public hearings, developer Harold Hohbach finally claimed on Monday the prize that has long eluded him -- the city's permission to build a three-story development on Page Mill Road.[Monday, June 25, 2012]
Report urges more funding for Palo Alto nonprofits
Palo Alto may be best known as the land of high incomes and soaring housing prices, but affluence is far from universal within the city's borders.[Friday, June 22, 2012]
Palo Alto mulls revisions to cell tower policies
Seeking to improve porous cell-phone coverage and meet a growing demand for wireless service, Palo Alto officials will consider on Monday whether the city should look to large cell towers on city land or smaller antennas in residential neighborhoods for assistance.[Monday, June 25, 2012]
Revised 'Park Plaza' wins staff endorsement
A controversial quest by Harold Hohbach to build a three-story development on Page Mill Road could finally reach its terminus Monday night, when Palo Alto officials review the latest revisions to his Park Plaza project.[Thursday, June 21, 2012]
History museum may seek corporate tenants
Palo Alto's drive to turn the famous Roth Building on Homer Avenue into a history museum has a long and twisted history of its own. The latest turn occurred Tuesday, when the group spearheading the project proposed allowing for-profit institutions to lease space in the building.[Tuesday, June 19, 2012]
New budget spells cuts for Palo Alto animal services
Higher water rates, a Fire Department with fewer firefighters, a host of fee increases and an animal-services operation trembling under the budget ax are some of the most prominent features of the 2013 budget that Palo Alto officials unanimously approved Monday night.[Tuesday, June 19, 2012]
Palo Alto's animal services get help from county
Palo Alto's financially troubled animal-services operation received a welcome boost Friday when the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved a budget that provides $47,000 for the local animal shelter.[Friday, June 15, 2012]