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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
VTA's new bus schedule leaves Gunn High in a quandary
With the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority poised to shake up its bus routes this weekend, Gunn High students who participate in after-school activities may need to look for new ways to get home.[Monday, December 23, 2019]
With Cubberley lease expiring, city and school district strike month-to-month deal
With Palo Alto's lease of Cubberley Community Center from the Palo Alto Unified School District nearing expiration, the two sides have entered into a month-to-month arrangement to preserve their partnership in the dilapidated complex.[Wednesday, December 25, 2019]
Council to consider outsourcing city auditor's work
The City Auditor's Office in Palo Alto is usually applying scrutiny, not attracting it, but after an extended period of dysfunction and a prolonged vacancy at the very top, the office itself is undergoing an audit of sorts.[Wednesday, December 18, 2019]
Employee-count tax emerges as committee's top pick for 2020 ballot
As Palo Alto marches toward a November 2020 ballot measure, city leaders are confronting two questions: What will the revenues fund? And what kind of tax should they ask the voters to pass?[Wednesday, December 18, 2019]
Land use attorney to join Palo Alto's planning commission
Palo Alto's most influential and at times controversial planning commission will add land use attorney Barton Hechtman, who was appointed by the City Council on Monday to the seven-member panel.[Tuesday, December 17, 2019]
Error caused city to delay passage of renter-protection law
Palo Alto City Attorney Molly Stump said Monday that she had erred on Dec. 2 when she told the City Council that it did not have enough votes to approve an urgency law protecting tenants from evictions without a just cause.[Tuesday, December 17, 2019]
Palo Alto to shield internal police conflicts from independent audits
The Palo Alto City Council agreed on Monday to exclude personnel conflicts within the Police Department from independent audits -- a move that was blasted by a prominent police watchdog.[Tuesday, December 17, 2019]
City tries to steer wireless antennas away from neighborhoods, schools
Palo Alto took its most dramatic action to date to curtail the increase in wireless antennas on street poles on Monday, when the City Council agreed to restrict such equipment in residential neighborhoods.[Tuesday, December 17, 2019]
New police auditor contract to exclude internal conflicts within department
In its final meeting of the year, the Palo Alto City Council is preparing to approve a new contract with the city's independent police auditors that explicitly excludes investigations of conflicts between officers.[Friday, December 13, 2019]
Traffic woes likely to drive Palo Alto's 2020 priorities
As the Palo Alto City Council sets its eyes on 2020, members are preparing for another year in which the city's transportation problems top their list of official priorities.[Wednesday, December 11, 2019]