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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
Bridge replacement could jam up Highway 101 this week
Drivers on U.S. Highway 101 can expect lane closures during the evening, night and early morning hours this week as the California Department of Transportation continues its work to replace the San Francisquito Bridge between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto.[Tuesday, July 7, 2015]
Mountain View man arrested in undercover sting
A Mountain View man suspected of stealing a package from the porch of a Palo Alto home and then trying to pawn off its contents on Craigslist was arrested when his buyer turned out to be an undercover Palo Alto officer.[Monday, June 8, 2015]
War and peace
In his latest book, "War! What is it Good for?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots," Stanford professor Ian Morris argues that war is the surest path to peace.[Thursday, May 7, 2015]
Groping suspect surrenders after social-media buzz
The man who police said groped a 12-year-old girl at a Stanford Shopping Center market on Sunday afternoon turned himself in to the Palo Alto police two days later after a surveillance photo from the incident went viral on social media.[Wednesday, April 29, 2015]
Palo Alto set to move ahead with minimum-wage hike
Following in the footsteps of its neighbors in Mountain View and Sunnyvale, Palo Alto is preparing to adopt a new law raising the local minimum wage to $10.30 per hour.[Friday, April 17, 2015]
Police: Suspicions of theft triggered Palo Alto's murder-suicide
The Palo Alto man who police said fatally shot the apartment manager at the Alta Torre Apartments before killing himself in the building's elevator believed that the manager was stealing items from his apartment, the police investigation concluded.[Wednesday, April 1, 2015]
Jim Hartnett makes a return trip to Caltrain — now as CEO
When Jim Hartnett joined the effort four years ago to bring high-speed rail to California, the project was in danger of going off the rails, with intense opposition mounting in Sacramento and on the Peninsula. Now, with high-speed rail proceeding in Central Valley, Hartnett is shifting his focus closer to home as Caltrain's newly hired CEO.[Saturday, March 14, 2015]
Report highlights Silicon Valley's uneven prosperity
Fueled by a sizzling tech sector, strong population growth and low unemployment, the Silicon Valley economy has grown rapidly since the doldrum days of the 2008 recession. So, however, have the income gaps between the region's wealthiest and poorest residents, between its men and women and between its white and black residents, according to an annual report released Tuesday by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley.[Wednesday, February 4, 2015]
Caltrain vote paves the way for electric trains
Caltrain's effort to replace its diesel trains with electric ones hit a milestone on Thursday morning when the agency's board of directors signed off on a key environmental document that paves the way for the project's implementation.[Thursday, January 8, 2015]
Plan for dedicated bus lanes on El Camino Real back on the table
A controversial plan by Santa Clara County to create dedicated bus lanes on El Camino Real between Palo Alto and San Jose is back on the table, despite strong concerns from local officials that the project will only increase congestion on local streets.[Tuesday, November 18, 2014]