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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
Developers boost funding for compost campaign
Campaign-finance data for Palo Alto's Measures D and E show that local developers have given proponents of E, which would undedicate parkland, a fundraising edge, while opponents of Measure D, which would repeal binding arbitration, have racked up $20,333 in debt.[Tuesday, October 4, 2011]
Page Mill Road development hits another snag
Harold Hohbach's tortuous journey to build a development filled with condominiums and research space on Page Mill Road just took another unpredictable swerve.[Tuesday, October 4, 2011]
Pot measure heads for 2012 ballot in Palo Alto
Palo Alto voters will have a chance next year to overturn the city's 15-year-old ban on marijuana dispensaries and allow three facilities to set up shop in the city.[Tuesday, October 4, 2011]
Research space, condo proposal heads to council
Even by Palo Alto standards, Harold Hohbach's seven-year quest to build a mixed-use development featuring condominiums and research space on Page Mill Road has been a long slog, featuring five applications and two lawsuits.[Monday, October 3, 2011]
Palo Alto and firefighters reach contract deal
After 16 months of heated negotiations, Palo Alto and its largest firefighter union on Friday reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract that eliminates the longstanding and controversial "minimum staffing" requirement in the union's contract.[Friday, September 30, 2011]
Poll: Opinions sour on high-speed rail
Nearly two thirds of Californians now oppose the state's high-speed rail project -- and the more they know about it, the less they like it, according to a new poll.[Friday, September 30, 2011]
Eshoo 'very concerned' about Wells Fargo's apartment sale
As Wells Fargo Bank prepares to sell about 1,800 housing units in East Palo Alto to a real-estate trust, U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, has joined city officials in calling for the bank to make sure the sale doesn't spell the end of affordable housing in the Woodland Park neighborhood.[Friday, September 30, 2011]
Palo Alto labor unions struggle in tough economy
Palo Alto and Wisconsin are thousands of miles apart -- geographically and politically -- but one wouldn't guess that by talking to the local labor leaders.[Friday, September 30, 2011]
Palo Alto mulls election to legalize marijuana dispensaries
On Monday night, the Palo Alto City Council will be forced to confront an issue that other cities, including San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley and Vallejo, have been wrestling with for the past 15 years: Should the city allow marijuana dispensaries to set up shop in Palo Alto?[Thursday, September 29, 2011]
San Francisquito Creek project close to securing state funds
An ambitious effort by Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park to calm the flood-prone San Francisquito Creek could get a major boost next month when the California Department of Water Resources is expected to release $8 million for the project.[Thursday, September 29, 2011]