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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
New five-story building proposed for downtown
A five-story building featuring offices, retail and residential units would go up on the site of a former Shell gas station in downtown Palo Alto under a proposal recently submitted to the city.[Saturday, March 5, 2011]
Simitian backs bill to limit sales of drugs with DXM
A proposal by two Palo Alto police officers to limit the sale of certain cough medicines to minors is one of four constituent-generated ideas that state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, is introducing as part of his "Oughta be a Law" contest.[Friday, March 4, 2011]
City hitches economic future to green innovation
Seeking to lure new clean-tech companies and retain existing ones, Palo Alto officials are pitching a new program that would turn some of the city's utility customers into "test beds" for emerging technologies.[Friday, March 4, 2011]
Palo Alto committee backs higher water rates
A proposal by Palo Alto's Utilities Department to raise the city's water rates by an average of 12.5 percent in July earned the endorsement of a City Council committee Tuesday night.[Thursday, March 3, 2011]
Compost plant draws excitement, skepticism
An ambitious and divisive proposal to build a waste-to-energy plant in Byxbee Park won cautious praise from Palo Alto's utility commissioners Wednesday night.[Wednesday, March 2, 2011]
Firefighters' salaries rise in Palo Alto
Defying a citywide trend, members of the Palo Alto Fire Department saw their collective salaries go up by 9 percent between 2009 and 2010, data from the city's Administrative Services Department shows. ==B Related material:== [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/media/reports/1299108094.pdf View City of Palo Alto employees' salaries][Wednesday, March 2, 2011]
Palo Alto credit card leads to two robbery arrests
Palo Alto police arrested two Sunnyvale residents who allegedly used a credit card that was stolen during a December robbery on El Cajon Way to buy a Sony PlayStation game console.[Wednesday, March 2, 2011]
City of Palo Alto staff salaries decreased in 2010
After several years of increases, the salaries of Palo Alto workers took a step in the opposite direction in 2010 as total pay dropped by more than $2 million.[Tuesday, March 1, 2011]
Palo Alto water rates could jump 12.5 percent
Water rates in Palo Alto would rise by an average 12.5 percent in July under a Utilities Department proposal that a City Council committee will consider tonight.[Tuesday, March 1, 2011]
Palo Alto makes fresh pitch for Google Fiber
As Google winnows down the field of applicants for its highly coveted "Google Fiber to Community" project, Palo Alto is making a last-gasp push to convince the high-tech giant to turn the city's longstanding fiber dreams into reality.[Tuesday, March 1, 2011]