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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 to update its bicycle strategies
Palo Alto will host a special presentation tonight (Thursday) to detail the city's efforts to promote bicycle riding and to kick off the city's update of its Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan.[Thursday, September 30, 2010]
Rail officials wrestle with 'conflict' finding
Two members of the California High-Speed Rail Authority board of directors could be serving on the board in violation of a state law governing conflicts of interest, according to a letter from the state Legislative Counsel Bureau.[Wednesday, September 29, 2010]
Documents: CalPERS' $100 million Page Mill loss
Retirement fund CalPERS released nearly 1,200 pages of documents this week detailing memos and correspondence between CalPERS officials and Page Mill executives in the frantic months before September 2009, when the Palo Alto company ran out of money and its property managers vacated its East Palo Alto apartment buildings, leaving trash cans overflowing and confused residents lined up near empty rental offices, wondering what to do with their rent checks.[Tuesday, September 28, 2010]
Palo Alto will still publish agendas -- but shorter
Palo Alto will continue to publish City Council agendas in a local newspaper, though these agendas will soon look a little slimmer and much less formal, the council voted 7-2 Monday night.[Tuesday, September 28, 2010]
Palo Alto weighs in on state propositions
Palo Alto officials support a state proposition barring California legislators from taking local funds and oppose initiatives that would suspend a bill curbing greenhouse-gas emissions and requiring a two-thirds vote for new fees.[Tuesday, September 28, 2010]
Palo Alto's landfill may stay open until 2015
Park lovers anxiously awaiting the closure of Palo Alto's nearly full landfill in the Baylands may now have to wait until 2015 before the controversial facility reaches its capacity, according to a new report.[Monday, September 27, 2010]
City may stop publishing agendas in newspapers
The Palo Alto City Council will consider tonight (Monday) whether to scrap a local ordinance that requires the city to publish council agendas in a local newspaper of general circulation.[Monday, September 27, 2010]
Outage hits 1,700 Barron Park homes, and Gunn
More than 1,400 utilities customers in Palo Alto's Barron Park neighborhood lost electric power Friday afternoon -- including Gunn High School. Power was restored by 6:30 p.m.[Friday, September 24, 2010]
High-speed rail: On the wrong track?
Midpeninsula city officials are assailing California's high-speed rail project, which state officials hope will connect San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020. Voters approved a $9.95 billion bond for the rail system in November 2008, when they passed Proposition 1A.[Friday, September 24, 2010]