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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
Plan for 'blended' rail system gains steam
A proposal by three lawmakers to blend high-speed rail and Caltrain on the Peninsula received a boost Friday when a panel of experts retained by the California High-Speed Rail Authority decided to lend its support to the idea.[Tuesday, August 30, 2011]
Bay Area News Group to lay off workers, rebrand papers
In the latest sign of economic distress in the newspaper industry, the Bay Area News Group announced Tuesday its plan to consolidate its printing operations and rebrand its newspapers -- a move that the company said would lead to elimination of about 120 jobs.[Wednesday, August 24, 2011]
East Palo Alto residents protest sale of apartments
As Wells Fargo prepares to unload its huge apartment portfolio in East Palo Alto, city residents, officials and tenant activists are gearing up for another battle to preserve rent control in the city's Woodland Park neighborhood.[Tuesday, August 23, 2011]
High-speed rail price tag rises again
California's planned high-speed rail line could cost billions more than the state's initial projections indicated, according to newly released documents from the agency spearheading the project.[Wednesday, August 10, 2011]
Palo Alto, Menlo fire district forge new agreement
The Palo Alto Fire Department has forged a new partnership with the Menlo Park Fire Protection District -- an agreement that officials say strengthens the mutual-aid arrangement between the two agencies.[Thursday, August 4, 2011]
Panel finds flaws in high-speed-rail forecasts
The California agency charged with building America's first high-speed-rail system has been using a flawed forecasting model to predict ridership for the proposed system, a peer-review panel concluded in a report that largely confirms previous criticism from transportation experts and rail watchdogs.[Monday, August 1, 2011]
Stanford Hospital project wins final approval
After an unexpected last-minute delay, Stanford University Medical Center's bid to dramatically expand its hospital facilities surged past the finish line Monday night when the Palo Alto City Council gave the $5 billion project its final approval.[Tuesday, July 12, 2011]
Caltrain gets $16 million grant for signal upgrades
Caltrain's effort to upgrade its train service surged ahead Thursday when the Federal Railroad Administration awarded the cash-strapped system a $16 million to design a modern signaling system.[Thursday, June 23, 2011]
New districts would shift power on Peninsula
A state-senate redistricting proposal, released by the nonpartisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission, would make Palo Alto a minority in the state Senate's 11th district.[Thursday, June 16, 2011]
Rep. Anna Eshoo recovering from successful appendectomy
U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Menlo Park, underwent an appendectomy Tuesday and will spend the week recuperating from the successful operation. She had to cancel her scheduled speech Wednesday night at Gunn High School's graduation, but helped to find a substitute.[Thursday, June 9, 2011]