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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
High-speed rail price tag rises again
California's planned high-speed rail line could cost billions more than the state's initial projections indicated, according to newly released documents from the agency spearheading the project.[Wednesday, August 10, 2011]
Green camps gear up for campaign battle
Palo Alto City Council members, a developer and other residents are contributing their cash to two competing campaigns over a November ballot measure that could determine the future of local composting.[Tuesday, August 9, 2011]
Firefighters withdraw challenge to ballot measure
Palo Alto firefighters have withdrawn their challenge to a ballot measure that would strike the binding-arbitration provision from the City Charter, city and union officials said Monday.[Monday, August 8, 2011]
AT&T antennas get mixed reception in Palo Alto
AT&T's proposal to install cell antennas on utility poles throughout Palo Alto found a mixed reception at a public hearing Thursday morning, with residents and Architecture Review Board members raising fresh concerns about the impacts of the new facilities.[Friday, August 5, 2011]
Palo Alto, Menlo fire district forge new agreement
The Palo Alto Fire Department has forged a new partnership with the Menlo Park Fire Protection District -- an agreement that officials say strengthens the mutual-aid arrangement between the two agencies.[Thursday, August 4, 2011]
Palo Alto fires back against union's complaint
Palo Alto's heated standoff with the city's firefighters union spilled over from the negotiating table to the court system this week, with the city firing back against the union's effort to keep labor reform off the November ballot. ==B Related story:== ■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=21994 Firefighters try to keep labor reform off ballot][Thursday, August 4, 2011]
Palo Alto opts to go digital for City Council reports
Electronic tablets and laptops will soon become prominent features at Palo Alto City Council meetings thanks to a decision by the council this week to make the leap from paper packets to digital files.[Wednesday, August 3, 2011]
Palo Alto robbery suspect identified, sought by police
A man who evaded police capture after a robbery outside Wells Fargo Bank on South California Avenue on Aug. 1 has been identified and is being sought by Palo Alto police. Gerardo Yepez Soto, 21, of Redwood City, is being sought by police in connection with the 11:05 a.m. robbery, during which a female victim, an employee of McDonald's, was in the process of taking a large cash deposit from the business to the bank.[Tuesday, August 2, 2011]
Palo Alto extends Arastradero re-striping trial
Palo Alto's most divisive traffic-calming project will be in place at least until next summer, the City Council decided Monday night. The council extended the Arastradero Road lane-reduction experiment until next June.[Tuesday, August 2, 2011]
Palo Alto council clashes over compost measure
Palo Alto's environmentalists remain at odds over the future of local composting, but the leaders of the two sides in the heated dispute agreed on one thing Monday night -- the language in the ballot measure seeking to settle the dilemma is misleading and should be changed.[Monday, August 1, 2011]