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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 braces for battle against housing mandates
If one believes regional projections, Palo Alto will have to build 12,500 new homes by 2035 to accommodate job growth and meet California's ambitious green goals. Count the City Council among the skeptics.[Sunday, January 22, 2012]
Palo Alto council to hold strategic retreat Saturday
The Palo Alto City Council will set its annual priorities and consider ways to fix up the city's infrastructure when it meets Saturday morning for its annual strategic retreat.[Friday, January 20, 2012]
Palo Alto set to rule on AT&T proposal
The heated battle between Palo Alto residents who demand better wireless coverage and those who find AT&T's proposed equipment unsightly and disruptive will resurface Monday night when the City Council considers an appeal to the company's controversial antenna application.[Friday, January 20, 2012]
Rich Gordon to seek another term in state Assembly
Assemblyman Rich Gordon, D-Menlo Park, announced Thursday morning that he would seek a second term in Sacramento. Gordon, a veteran San Mateo County supervisor who was elected to the state Assembly in 2010, touted in his announcement his success during his freshman term.[Thursday, January 19, 2012]
Palo Alto weighs tough choices for fixing infrastructure
Seeking to get a better grip on the city's gaping infrastructure needs, Palo Alto officials on Tuesday delved into a long-awaited report by a commission that had spent more than a year studying the problem.[Wednesday, January 18, 2012]
Eshoo leads opposition to Stop Online Piracy Act
A pair of Capitol Hill proposals that target pirating of American content by foreign websites are drawing fierce opposition from major high-tech firms and making unlikely bedfellows out of legislators who oppose the bills. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, has emerged as of the act's leading opponents.[Tuesday, January 17, 2012]
Palo Alto shifts focus to infrastructure
Palo Alto's quest to repair its aged infrastructure and possibly seek a bond to pay for some of these repairs will kick off in earnest tonight when the City Council takes its first stab at a new report focusing on the subject.[Tuesday, January 17, 2012]
Suspect arrested in downtown Palo Alto robbery
A man who police said robbed a woman at gunpoint in downtown Palo Alto in October and then stole her car several days later was arrested Friday morning in Redwood City.[Saturday, January 14, 2012]
Simitian seeks to postpone high-speed-rail funding
Three years after California voters approved a $9.95 billion bond to build the nation's first high-speed-rail system, a debate over its funding has turned into a legislative game of chicken, with billions of dollars on the line.[Friday, January 13, 2012]
City may seek bond for new public-safety facilities
If a major earthquake were to strike Palo Alto tomorrow, it could render the city's police headquarters at City Hall functionally useless and topple the cramped, half-century-old fire stations at Mitchell and Rinconada parks, possibly injuring or killing their occupants.[Friday, January 13, 2012]