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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
Judge allows health-care initiative to proceed
A measure that would cap how much local health care providers can charge their patients for medical services is set to appear on Palo Alto's ballot in November after a Santa Clara Superior Court judge ruled on Aug. 1 to reject the hospitals' legal challenge.[Friday, August 3, 2018]
Palo Alto places hotel-tax hike on November ballot
Palo Alto voters will have a chance in November to raise the city's hotel-tax rate to help fund the city's wish list of infrastructure projects.[Sunday, August 5, 2018]
Dysfunction, polarization mar influential city commission
The Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission has seen its share of enmity -- not just between itself and members of the public but frequently between the members themselves.[Friday, August 3, 2018]
Palo Alto chided for 'bad faith' negotiations with utility workers
A judge for the state Public Employment Relations Board has ordered the city of Palo Alto to provide information requested by a recently formed labor group of managers in the Utilities Department during extended contract talks.[Thursday, August 2, 2018]
Wolbach, Cormack take fundraising lead
Palo Alto City Councilman Cory Wolbach and challenger Alison Cormack have taken an early but significant lead in the five-candidate race for campaign cash, with each raising more than $35,000 as of the end of June, according to newly released campaign-finance disclosures.[Tuesday, July 31, 2018]
Palo Alto lowers the cap on office development
Opting to avert an expected Election Day showdown, a divided Palo Alto City Council moved on Monday to adopt a citizen initiative that slashes in half the amount of office space that the city will allow between now and 2030.[Monday, July 30, 2018]
Stanford offers new plan to tackle affordable housing
Stanford University on Friday submitted a new proposal to Santa Clara County that would convert up to 200 apartments on the university's campus into below-market-rate units and create a new fund to support future projects.[Friday, July 27, 2018]
President Hotel evictions revive talk of renter protections
Palo Alto's elected officials are preparing new measures that would assist local renters at a time of escalating rents.[Friday, July 27, 2018]
Study ponders impact of curbing office growth
A proposed citizen initiative to curb commercial development citywide is unlikely to have a big impact on the city's finances or its growth patterns, a new analysis indicates.[Thursday, July 26, 2018]
Push to scrap downtown cap meets resistance
A divisive proposal to eliminate the limit on commercial development in downtown Palo Alto ran into a wall of resistance Wednesday night, when the city's Planning and Transportation Commission opted not to advance the change.[Thursday, July 26, 2018]