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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
Booze dispute at Safeway nets four arrests
Three men and a juvenile were arrested after failed attempts to buy -- and later, steal -- alcohol from a Safeway in Midtown Palo Alto Sunday morning.[Monday, March 14, 2011]
Tsuchiura students cope with devastation
Tsuchiura was spared the devastating effects of the tsunami that ravaged several Japanese towns, but Palo Alto's sister city continues to cope with damage from the earthquake, electrical outages and the possibility of a forced evacuation. ==B Caption:== ==I Students from Tsuchiura, Japan, visit Palo Alto in March 2009. Photo by Veronica Weber/Palo Alto Online.==[Monday, March 14, 2011]
Stanford Hospital's projected impacts downgraded
As Stanford University's massive hospital expansion glides toward Palo Alto's approval, its projected impacts on local traffic and the environment are gradually becoming less intense and more manageable, the latest environmental documents show.[Friday, March 11, 2011]
South Palo Alto leads growth, diversity trends
The demographic data that the U.S. Census Bureau released Tuesday is likely to confirm and quantify the observations of residents in Palo Verde and other south Palo Alto neighborhoods. Over the past decade, Palo Alto has become more populous, adding nearly 6,000 residents citywide but particularly impacting the south.[Friday, March 11, 2011]
Green attorneys clash over Baylands plant
As Palo Alto's environmentalists continue to battle over whether to build a waste-to-energy plant in the Baylands, they are also clashing over the larger question of whether the city has a right to build industrial facilities on land it may not even own.[Friday, March 11, 2011]
Black population decreases in East Palo Alto
Defying a Bay Area trend, East Palo Alto saw its population decrease by 4.6 percent over the past decade -- a drop precipitated by a shrinking number of black residents, U.S. Census data shows.[Wednesday, March 9, 2011]
Census: Big spike in Palo Alto's Asian population
Palo Alto's population spiked by almost 10 percent over the past decade, fueled in large part by a growing Asian community, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau show. ==B Related stories:== ■ [http://www.almanacnews.com/news/show_story.php?id=8462 Menlo Park grows while neighbors shrink] ■ [http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=4021 Census shows minority population growing in Mountain View][Tuesday, March 8, 2011]
Palo Alto City Auditor Lynda Brouchoud resigns
Palo Alto's City Auditor Lynda Brouchoud will step down from her position next month, leaving the city with another gaping hole in its leadership team.[Tuesday, March 8, 2011]
South Palo Alto to gain more senior housing
Faced with a graying population and a shortage of housing for seniors, the Palo Alto City Council swiftly and happily approved a plan Monday night to expand the Palo Alto Commons development on El Camino Way.[Monday, March 7, 2011]
Palo Alto senior-housing complex eyes expansion
Palo Alto Commons, a housing complex for senior citizens on El Camino Way, would get 44 new housing units as well as a new gym, lounge and indoor pool if the City Council approves a zone change to enable the expansion tonight.[Monday, March 7, 2011]