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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 voters back higher hotel tax
Palo Alto's hotel tax rate will go up for the second time in four years, giving the city the highest rate in the state, thanks to the voters' decision on Tuesday to support Measure E.[Tuesday, November 6, 2018]
Holman wins open space district seat
Palo Alto City Councilwoman Karen Holman prevailed Tuesday in an unusually expensive and competitive race for a seat on the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District board against her long-time political adversary, Councilman Greg Scharff, early Election Day results indicated.[Tuesday, November 6, 2018]
Health care measure routed in Palo Alto
A proposal by a union of health care workers to impose caps on how much Palo Alto's medical providers can charge patients and insurance companies was emphatically rejected by local voters on Election Day.[Tuesday, November 6, 2018]
Spending soars on health care ballot measure
The two sides in the battle over Measure F, which would cap how much Palo Alto medical practitioners can charge their patients, have collectively spent more than $7.3 million to spread their messages both here and in Livermore, where a similar measure is also going to the voters, according to campaign-finance documents.[Wednesday, October 31, 2018]
Scharff and Holman wage expensive contest for open-district seat
The race between two Palo Alto City Council members for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District has become the most expensive such contest in recent memory, with Greg Scharff injecting a $120,000 loan into his campaign and Councilwoman Karen Holman bringing in more than $20,000 in contributions from supporters.[Wednesday, October 31, 2018]
Applicants seek to change planning commission's tone
When the Palo Alto City Council meets in late November to interview 13 candidates for the city's influential but polarized Planning and Transportation Commission, questions about ethics may loom as large as those pertaining to housing and traffic.[Friday, November 2, 2018]
Palo Alto council moves toward new rules, fewer seats
The Palo Alto City Council will emerge from the November election with fewer members than it had going in, thanks to the voters' decision in 2014 to reduce the number of seats from nine to seven.[Tuesday, October 30, 2018]
Four council candidates raise more than $50,000 each
Four out of five candidates for seats on the Palo Alto City Council have now each raised more than $50,000 for their respective campaigns, underscoring the growing role of money in local politics.[Friday, October 26, 2018]
Palo Alto plans to add defibrillator to every police car
Every patrol car in the Palo Alto Police Department will soon be equipped with a new life-saving tool: a defibrillator that restores regular heart rhythm to victims of sudden cardiac arrest.[Thursday, October 25, 2018]
City to sell development rights to fund upgrades to Avenidas, children's zoo
Seeking to raise money for popular community projects, Palo Alto officials are preparing to sell to local bidders a valuable commodity: the right to exceed zoning regulations for new projects.[Wednesday, October 24, 2018]