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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
Liz Kniss
For more than two decades, Liz Kniss has been the face and voice of Palo Alto outside the city's borders.[Friday, October 14, 2016]
Arthur Keller
Arthur Keller, a data-crunching veteran of Palo Alto's land-use battles, officially announced his run for City Council on July 28.[Friday, October 14, 2016]
John Fredrich
In a position paper, City Council candidate John Fredrich called for more affordable housing, new parks and improved mass transit to reduce reliance on cars. That was in 1975, and much has changed since then.[Friday, October 14, 2016]
Adrian Fine
Adrian Fine, the chair of the city's Planning and Transportation Commission, isn't exactly a "Grow, baby, grow" kind of guy.[Friday, October 14, 2016]
Len Ely
Try it. If it doesn't work, try something else. It's the mantra of a thousand Silicon Valley startups. It's also the modus operandi of Leonard Ely III, a City Council candidate who doesn't pretend to have all the answers.[Friday, October 14, 2016]
Stewart Carl
As a candidate for the City Council, Stewart Carl is back to surveying the city's development landscape and is troubled by what he sees: too many offices, too much congestion and suboptimal architecture.[Friday, October 14, 2016]
Election 2016: Deciding Palo Alto's future
What kind of city should Palo Alto strive to become? This question looms over the Nov. 8 election, which is as much a contest between values as it is between the 11 City Council candidates vying for four seats.[Friday, October 14, 2016]
City looks to shift fire station to Geng Road
A new fire station would go up near the Palo Alto Baylands and remain there for about 18 months while the city rebuilds the existing station at Rinconada Park, under a plan the City Council is set to consider Monday night.[Wednesday, October 12, 2016]
Council nixes Faircourt's bid to ban two-story homes
A divisive proposal to ban two-story homes in an Eichler tract in the Palo Verde neighborhood fizzled on Tuesday night when Palo Alto officials deemed the level of support for the ban to be insufficient.[Tuesday, October 4, 2016]
In rare move, Chamber picks favorites in Palo Alto council race
The Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday jumped into the city's politically charged debate about office development when it issued a statement characterizing some candidates for the City Council as “anti-business” and others as worthy of support.[Tuesday, October 4, 2016]