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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 resists Grand Jury recommendations on housing
Palo Alto's elected officials took a skeptical stance last week toward a new Santa Clara County Grand Jury Report that criticized jurisdictions throughout the county for failing to adopt policies that encourage affordable housing.[Friday, September 21, 2018]
Public Works veteran tapped to lead department
Brad Eggleston, a veteran engineer who has been at the forefront of Palo Alto's recent push to upgrade its infrastructure, will be the new leader of the Public Works Department.[Wednesday, September 19, 2018]
Tanaka blasts colleagues for 'busting budget'
Palo Alto City Councilman Greg Tanaka publicly accused his council colleagues and city staff on Tuesday night of poor stewardship in handling city finances and for repeatedly failing to "stick to the budget."[Wednesday, September 19, 2018]
Palo Alto finalizes design on new police headquarters
With the cost of Palo Alto's proposed new public-safety building now hovering above $100 million, City Council members on Monday urged staff to move quickly on constructing the project, which has been in the works for nearly two decades.[Tuesday, September 18, 2018]
Palo Alto broadens law to help evicted tenants
In an abrupt change of course, the Palo Alto City Council approved on Monday night a law ensuring that tenants facing eviction would get some relocation assistance, regardless of their income levels.[Tuesday, September 18, 2018]
Opponents gear up for battle over health care
Measure F will either burden Palo Alto taxpayers with a new bureaucracy that could cost up to $2 million a year to administer or save them money by containing staggering health care costs.[Friday, September 14, 2018]
Palo Alto gets set to build new California Avenue garage
After years of planning for a new public-safety building and parking garage in the California Avenue area, Palo Alto officials are finally getting close to breaking ground on the two projects.[Saturday, September 15, 2018]
Palo Alto hopes to fix flawed business registry
Faced with a damning audit showing that Palo Alto's nascent business registry is riddled with data that is inaccurate, incomplete and inconsistent, a City Council committee agreed on Tuesday night to take a fresh look at the program’s reasons for existence.[Thursday, September 13, 2018]
Family of missing woman offers $25K reward
The family of Wamaitha Kaboga-Miller, a Palo Alto woman who went missing nearly four weeks ago, is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts, police said Wednesday.[Wednesday, September 12, 2018]
Palo Alto to reconsider relocation assistance in evictions
The Palo Alto City Council signaled on Monday that it plans to revisit and possibly revise a newly adopted law that limits relocation assistance for evicted tenants to those making above the area's median income.[Tuesday, September 11, 2018]