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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 wrestles with composting dilemma
The battle between Palo Alto's environmentalists over the future of local composting resumed Wednesday night when both sides of the debate packed into a meeting to learn more about the costs of building a local waste-to-energy plant.[Thursday, February 24, 2011]
Fire damages Palo Alto home on El Camino
A fire that officials believe was caused by an unattended candle damaged a home in the 1500 block of El Camino Real in Palo Alto Sunday afternoon.[Wednesday, February 23, 2011]
Judge upholds affordable-housing program
Palo Alto's effort to promote low-income housing received a major boost this month when a California Superior Court judge struck down a developer's challenge to the city's affordable-housing program.[Tuesday, February 22, 2011]
Work set to begin at busy El Camino intersection
One of Palo Alto's busiest and most dangerous intersections will soon be equipped with larger sidewalks, new signs and bulbouts and a pedestrian island in the middle of the crosswalk.[Tuesday, February 22, 2011]
Senator seeks to revamp rail authority leadership
The agency charged with building California's high-speed rail system would lose its semi-independent status and see its entire leadership team replaced under a bill proposed this week by a south California state senator.[Saturday, February 19, 2011]
Special report: murder victim Jennifer Schipsi's final hours
A narrative account of Oct. 15, 2009, the day 29-year-old Palo Alto real-estate agent Jennifer Schipsi was murdered, based on testimony and evidence presented in the five-week-long, first-degree murder-and-arson trial of Schipsi's boyfriend, Palo Alto businessman Bulos "Paul" Zumot.[Friday, February 18, 2011]
Stanford Hospital expansion on track for spring approval
Stanford University Medical Center's proposal to dramatically expand and rebuild its hospital facilities in Palo Alto hit a milestone Thursday when the city completed a critical environmental document analyzing the project's impacts.[Friday, February 18, 2011]
Palo Alto council backs lane cuts on Cal Ave
Palo Alto's plan to transform California Avenue into a two-lane pedestrian-friendly boulevard sped ahead Monday night (Feb. 14) when the City Council unanimously backed the project despite a mixed reception from area merchants.[Monday, February 14, 2011]
Merchants delay California Ave. street project
Palo Alto's plan to reduce lanes on California Avenue and to bring a host of streetscape improvements to the commercial strip hit an unexpected speedbump when a group of local merchants convinced the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to put the project on hold.[Friday, February 11, 2011]
Conservationists file complaint over landfill land
A group of Palo Alto conservationists filed a complaint against the city Friday alleging that city officials are violating Palo Alto's agreement with the state by considering a new waste-to-energy plant in the Baylands.[Friday, February 11, 2011]