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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
Zumot's attorney rips into expert's cell data
About three hours before Jennifer Schipsi's body was found in a burned cottage on Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, her cell phone appeared to be traveling with her boyfriend Bulos Zumot's phone, a cell-phone expert testified Friday.[Friday, January 14, 2011]
Palo Alto, other cities explore merging services
Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos and Sunnyvale city managers are considering merging their emergency-dispatch centers, record-management facilities and fire-prevention services to save money during lean times.[Wednesday, January 12, 2011]
Zumot's attorney blasts withholding of texts
The attorney for Bulos Zumot, the Palo Alto man charged with killing his girlfriend, Jennifer Schipsi, and setting their cottage on fire, lashed out Tuesday morning against the prosecution's tactics and said he is contemplating a request for a mistrial.[Tuesday, January 11, 2011]
Hazardous Pardee Park trees set for fast removal
The ailing eucalyptus trees at Eleanor Pardee Park will be removed and replaced by other species in March under a plan approved by the City Council Monday night.[Tuesday, January 11, 2011]
Roberts blasts media accounts of his departure
Public Works Director Glenn Roberts, who retired from Palo Alto after reaching a legal settlement with the city in October, took a bow Monday night, as well as a parting shot at newspaper accounts that he said grossly mischaracterized his departure.[Monday, January 10, 2011]
Friend doubted Schipsi wrote him a message
Jaber Al Suwaidi had known Bulos "Paul" Zumot and Jennifer Schipsi for more than two years and over that time he had exchanged hundreds of text messages with both. So when he received a text message from Schipsi's phone on Oct. 15, 2009, saying that Zumot wasn't mad at him for missing his birthday the previous night, he suspected it wasn't Schipsi who wrote it.[Monday, January 10, 2011]
Witness says Zumot sped by her as fire started
Susie Scholpp said she was unloading groceries from her car outside her Lincoln Avenue home shortly after 6 p.m. on Oct. 15, 2009, when she saw a man in a sports utility vehicle speed down her block. That man, she said, was Bulos Zumot, and he was driving by her at about the time a fire was destroying his cottage on Addison Avenue. ==B Related stories:== ■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19587 Zumot's friend recalls night before fatal fire] ■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19573 Police handling of Schipsi murder challenged] ■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19566 Zumot-trial attorneys clash over arson evidence][Friday, January 7, 2011]
Bus driver's name released in fatal crash
Police have released the name of the bus driver whose bus struck and killed a pedestrian in downtown Palo Alto on Dec. 30.[Thursday, January 6, 2011]
Zumot's friend recalls night before fatal fire
Shortly after Bulos Zumot blew out the candles on his birthday cake at the DishDash Restaurant in Sunnyvale, he found himself arguing with his girlfriend, Jennifer Schipsi, over the bill, according to testimony presented Wednesday. ==B Related stories:== ■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19573 Police handling of Schipsi murder challenged] ■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19566 Zumot-trial attorneys clash over arson evidence] ■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19552 Cell phone takes center stage at Zumot trial] ■ [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=14225 Boyfriend arrested in Palo Alto death of Jennifer Marie Schipsi][Thursday, January 6, 2011]
Introducing Palo Alto's new mayor
Newly elected Palo Alto Mayor Sid Espinosa (left) speaks to members of the public alongside former Mayor Pat Burt Tuesday at Palo Alto City Hall. ==B Photo by Veronica Weber/Palo Alto Online.== [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19571 ==B See story==][Wednesday, January 5, 2011]