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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 seeks tougher tobacco laws
Smoking is hardly a burning issue in Palo Alto, but those who make it their vice of choice could soon encounter new pressures and obstacles.[Wednesday, June 8, 2011]
Palo Alto approves Stanford Hospital expansion
Stanford University Medical Center's four-year quest to get Palo Alto's permission for a massive expansion of its hospital facilities glided past the finish line Monday night when an enthusiastic City Council voted to approve what members routinely call the largest development project in the city's history. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFSipkEFY3s ==B Watch an animated 'flythrough' of the expanded Stanford Hospital.==][Monday, June 6, 2011]
Suspect arrested in infant's death
East Palo Alto police have arrested a suspect in the Sunday morning shooting and killing of a 3-month-old baby on Wisteria Drive. The arrest, which police plan to discuss at a noon press conference, follows a manhunt that begun shortly after the shooting.[Sunday, June 5, 2011]
Palo Alto to overhaul emergency services
Despite budget deficits and staffing reductions, Palo Alto is planning to create a $1 million Office of Emergency Services this year, an addition that volunteers have been clamoring for for years.[Friday, June 3, 2011]
Stanford Hospital expansion up for final vote
The Stanford University Medical Center expansion project is expected to hit its most significant milestone Monday night. If the Palo Alto City Council approves the project, it would signal the end of a four-year review process that involved 100 public hearings and contentious negotiations over terms of approval -- negotiations that finally resolved last month.[Thursday, June 2, 2011]
Simitian's bill to limit cough-medicine sales to minors advances
Joe Simitian's bid to ban sales of certain cough medicine to minors easily sailed through the state Senate Tuesday afternoon. Senate Bill 514 specifically targets medicine with dextromethorphan (DXM), which produces intoxication and hallucinations when ingested in high quantities -- a practice known as "robotripping."[Wednesday, June 1, 2011]
Palo Alto's fiber dreams dealt another blow
Palo Alto's decade-long dream of expanding its fiber ring to bring high-speed Internet to every home in the city should be deferred, if not abandoned altogether, because of high costs, questionable demand and fierce competition from existing telecommunications giants, two consulting firms have concurred in separate reports.[Tuesday, May 31, 2011]
Former assemblyman Ira Ruskin diagnosed with malignant tumor
Former state Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, who represented Palo Alto for six years before terming out last year, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is halting his political career. Ruskin, 67, said he was advised by his doctors that the tumor, while not curable, is containable.[Friday, May 27, 2011]
East Palo Alto's largest landlord looks to sell
For residents at the Newell Court apartments in East Palo Alto, change has become the new normal over the past two years.[Friday, May 27, 2011]
VMWare plans massive expansion in Palo Alto
Palo Alto's information-technology giant VMWare is preparing to gobble up one of the largest and most lucrative research spaces in Palo Alto -- a 1-million-square-foot property formerly occupied by pharmaceutical company Roche.[Thursday, May 26, 2011]