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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
Rail authority CEO to resign
California's quest to build the nation's first high-speed rail took another unexpected twist Thursday when the the man charged with leading the project announced he will resign in two months. Roelof van Ark, who was appointed to lead the California High-Speed Rail Authority in May 2010, announced his resignation at Thursday's meeting of the rail authority's board of directors.[Thursday, January 12, 2012]
Ramona Street home no longer 'historic'
Christopher Pickett's Ramona Street home was built in 1895, but on Monday the Palo Alto City Council agreed with Pickett that the Queen Anne-style house isn't technically "historic" and should be erased from the city's Historic Inventory.[Monday, January 9, 2012]
Liz Kniss to run for Palo Alto City Council
After a decade-long hiatus, Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss launched her quest to return to local politics Monday when she announced that she will be running for the Palo Alto City Council this year.[Monday, January 9, 2012]
Alma Plaza to get new traffic signal
Seeking to make life easier for shoppers at the city's renovated Alma Plaza, Palo Alto officials are planning to install a new traffic signal near the entrance to the plaza.[Monday, January 9, 2012]
Green goals, infrastructure on city's 2012 agenda
Curbing employee costs, fixing up the city's aged infrastructure, reopening the city's largest library and using technology to spur community involvement are among the issues looming large on Palo Alto's horizon in 2012.[Friday, January 6, 2012]
Ford to open research lab in Palo Alto
Ford Motor Company plans to open a research lab in Palo Alto, a facility that the company says will be its "first-ever dedicated R&D office on the west coast."[Friday, January 6, 2012]
Palo Alto's young mayor packs policy experience
When Yiaway Yeh cast the deciding vote last July to send a labor-reform measure on the November ballot, just about everyone in the Council Chambers raised an eyebrow or two in disbelief. Yeh, 33, who this week became Palo Alto mayor, had been a staunch ally of the city's public-sector unions since he first joined the council in 2007.[Friday, January 6, 2012]
Plan to cut lanes on California Avenue challenged again
Palo Alto's plan to reduce lanes on California Avenue from four to two and to add a host of streetscape improvements to the commercial strip is facing a fresh legal challenge from an area merchant.[Thursday, January 5, 2012]
Yeh, Scharff to lead Palo Alto council in 2012
Yiaway Yeh, a mild-mannered auditor with an appetite for crunching budget numbers and delving into utilities issues, was unanimously elected Tuesday night to serve as Palo Alto mayor this year, becoming the second-youngest councilman to ever hold the position.[Tuesday, January 3, 2012]
Report: Halt state funding for high-speed rail
California's quest to build a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles suffered a heavy blow Tuesday when a peer-review committee recommended that state legislators not fund the project until major changes are made to the business plan for the increasingly controversial line.[Tuesday, January 3, 2012]