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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
City, fire union deadlocked over minimum staffing
The tense negotiations between Palo Alto and its largest firefighters union remain deadlocked because of a dispute over the minimal-staffing provision in the firefighters' contract, both sides said this week.[Thursday, June 30, 2011]
Trash rates to rise again in Palo Alto
Palo Alto residents should expect to see their trash rates spike by 13 percent this fall to help cover a gaping budget hole in the city's refuse operation.[Thursday, June 30, 2011]
Proposed downtown 'gateway' building debated
Palo Alto officials would like to see larger developments near the city's transit stations, but they are still trying to hash out exactly who should occupy these buildings. The issue emerged Wednesday night, when the Planning and Transportation Commission discussed a proposed four-story "gateway" building at the intersection of Alma Street and Lytton Avenue.[Wednesday, June 29, 2011]
Palo Alto ponders long list of labor reforms
As Palo Alto officials look to reform the city's binding-arbitration provision, they are specifically looking at ways to narrow the arbitrators' focus and requiring them to consider impacts to other city departments.[Wednesday, June 29, 2011]
Cubberley still an option for Foothill expansion
Faced with conflicting arguments and clashing priorities, Palo Alto officials defied dozens of citizens Monday night and decided to keep Cubberley Community Center in the running as a possible site for an expansion of Foothill College. ==B Related stories:== ■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=21546 Palo Alto mulls Cubberley sale again][Tuesday, June 28, 2011]
New study, same arguments in Palo Alto's compost debate
Palo Alto's heated debate over the future of local composting reignited Monday night, with both supporters and opponents of a new facility pointing to a newly released analysis to support their position.[Monday, June 27, 2011]
Stanford Hospital, parents near agreement
Stanford University Medical Center has offered to relocate a day care center to another campus site to appease a large group of parents who believe Stanford's hospital-expansion project would threaten their children's health, a spokesperson for the parents said Monday night.[Monday, June 27, 2011]
Plane crashes, flips in the Baylands
Three people on board a small Cessna plane escaped largely unharmed after the plane lost power, nosedived and flipped over as it approached Palo Alto Airport Thursday evening. ==B Photos by Veronica Weber/Palo Alto Online.==[Friday, June 24, 2011]
Caltrain gets $16 million grant for signal upgrades
Caltrain's effort to upgrade its train service surged ahead Thursday when the Federal Railroad Administration awarded the cash-strapped system a $16 million to design a modern signaling system.[Thursday, June 23, 2011]
Palo Alto firefighters call for mediation
With contract negotiations stalling, Palo Alto firefighters are calling on the city to enlist a mediator to nudge the two sides toward an agreement.[Thursday, June 23, 2011]