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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
First community meeting on Cubberley set for September
Palo Alto's effort to craft a new vision for Cubberley Community Center is set to kick off in earnest in September, when the city and the school district kick off a series of community meetings to solicit resident ideas about the center’s future.[Saturday, August 18, 2018]
Palo Alto and Stanford reach deal for fire services
After five years of tense talks, Palo Alto and Stanford University have reached an agreement on a new fire-protection contract, one that will ensure that the city's Fire Department will continue to serve the university until 2023.[Friday, August 17, 2018]
Palo Alto and nonprofit explore ways to fix up cramped shelter
Palo Alto city officials are struggling to determine what to do with the animal shelter -- a facility that they see as both absolutely crucial and painfully inadequate.[Friday, August 17, 2018]
Holman, Scharff to vie for board seat on open-space district
Their City Council tenures may be coming to an end, but Karen Holman and Greg Scharff are preparing to square off in another competitive election this year, as each is looking to fill a seat on the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District board of directors.[Wednesday, August 15, 2018]
City rushes to pass law for residents facing eviction
Palo Alto officials are drafting an urgency ordinance before the end of August that would require owners of apartment buildings to provide relocation assistance to evicted tenants.[Monday, August 13, 2018]
Mayor apologizes for downplaying traffic concerns
After facing a backlash for suggesting that the community's traffic concerns are "exaggerated," Mayor Liz Kniss issued a public apology on Monday night and announced that the city will hold a town meeting in October focused on the topic.[Monday, August 13, 2018]
Justices reject Brock Turner's appeal
An appellate court affirmed on Wednesday the conviction of former Stanford University student Brock Turner, who was controversially sentenced to six months in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated woman outside an on-campus fraternity party in 2015.[Wednesday, August 8, 2018]
Palo Alto finds flaws in new analysis of Stanford expansion
Despite acknowledging the area's need for more housing, Palo Alto has come out swinging against a new county analysis that considers requiring Stanford University to build enough housing to match the university's proposed academic growth.[Thursday, August 9, 2018]
Facing eviction, residents seek urgency ordinance
President Hotel residents are asking the Palo Alto City Council to pass an urgency ordinance that would assist them with their pending eviction from the historic building.[Friday, August 10, 2018]
Cities join forces to tackle airplane noise
An effort by cities in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties to form an alliance to address the irksome issue of airplane noise is finally preparing to lift off the ground.[Tuesday, August 7, 2018]