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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
Rail advocates, critics to face off today
Top officials from the California High-Speed Rail Authority will join some of the rail project's toughest critics in Palo Alto Tuesday afternoon for a public discussion of the controversial, voter-approved rail line.[Tuesday, November 15, 2011]
High-speed rail hit with legal setback
A coalition that includes Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto scored a legal victory over the California High Speed Rail Authority Thursday when a Sacramento judge ruled that the state agency has to reopen and revise its environmental analysis of the controversial line.[Thursday, November 10, 2011]
Today: Rich Gordon hosts hearing on high-speed-rail
California's controversial and increasingly expensive high-speed-rail system is the subject of a public hearing hosted by Assemblyman Rich Gordon, D-Menlo Park, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Palo Alto City Hall.[Sunday, November 13, 2011]
Bill to help businesses raise cash moves ahead
A bill that aims to help small businesses amass capital and go public overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives Wednesday morning.[Thursday, November 3, 2011]
Price tag swells for high-speed rail
The cost of California's proposed high-speed-rail system, originally pegged at about $36 billion, has nearly tripled since the project was presented to voters in 2008, according to a business plan that the agency charged with building the new system released Tuesday.[Tuesday, November 1, 2011]
Simitian's red-light-camera bill vetoed
A proposal by Sen. Joe Simitian to set new restrictions on red-light cameras hit the wall Thursday when Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed it.[Monday, October 10, 2011]
Creek project close to securing state funds
An ambitious effort by Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park to calm the flood-prone San Francisquito Creek could get a major boost next month when the California Department of Water Resources is expected to release $8 million for the project.[Friday, September 30, 2011]
Poll: Opinions sour on high-speed rail
Nearly two thirds of Californians now oppose the state's high-speed rail project -- and the more they know about it, the less they like it, according to a new poll.[Friday, September 30, 2011]
Eshoo 'very concerned' about Wells Fargo's apartment sale
As Wells Fargo Bank prepares to sell about 1,800 housing units in East Palo Alto to a real-estate trust, U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Menlo Park, has joined city officials in calling for the bank to make sure the sale doesn't spell the end of affordable housing in the Woodland Park neighborhood.[Friday, September 30, 2011]
Eshoo seeks auction of broadcast spectrum
Spectrum auctions and privacy protection top U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo's list of technological priorities, though with partisanship and the economy dominating Washington, D.C., progress on Internet issues may be tough to reach during the current legislative session, the Silicon Valley lawmaker told a group of tech executives and attorneys Tuesday afternoon.[Wednesday, September 28, 2011]