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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 looks to raise age for tobacco sales
Seeking to make Palo Alto a regional leader in a crusade against cigarette smoke, city officials are preparing to raise the minimum age for buying tobacco to 21 and to ban smoking in local apartment buildings and condominium complexes.[Thursday, February 11, 2016]
Palo Alto launches airplane-noise study
With the topic of airplane noise recently soaring toward the top of Palo Alto's priority list, the City Council moved ahead this week with a new study that officials and citizens hope will arm the city with the necessary data to effect change.[Wednesday, February 10, 2016]
City backs funding plan for transportation-tax measure
Seeking to preserve a fragile and fraying coalition of cities, Palo Alto officials on Monday night rallied behind a proposal for divvying up the roughly $6 billion in transportation funds that would be raised by a proposed November tax measure.[Tuesday, February 9, 2016]
Palo Alto prepares to test new office cap
When Palo Alto officials agreed last year to institute an annual limit on office development, the goal was to slow down the pace of growth in the city's most congested commercial areas and to ramp up the quality of new developments by subjecting them to "beauty contests."[Tuesday, February 9, 2016]
Police: Palo Alto man robbed after walking in on burglary
A Palo Alto man was robbed Friday morning after he walked in on a burglary that was taking place at his home on Edgewood Drive, police said. The alleged robber was arrested less than 15 minutes later, while walking away with the stolen items.[Saturday, February 6, 2016]
Raises approved for top Palo Alto officials
With all of Palo Alto's labor groups engaged in negotiations over new contracts, the City Council swiftly approved raises this week for four top City Hall officials.[Saturday, February 6, 2016]
Cities join forces to back transportation-funding plan
With Santa Clara County cruising toward a November transportation tax measure, Palo Alto and eight other cities in the north county and west valley are rallying behind a new plan for how the $6 billion from the measure would be spent.[Saturday, February 6, 2016]
Jay Paul scales back its development plans for California Avenue in Palo Alto
After more than a year of commission reviews and design revisions, Jay Paul Company has withdrawn the application for one of its two proposed research-and-development projects in the bustling area near the California Avenue Caltrain station.[Friday, February 5, 2016]
Utility rates set to rise in Palo Alto
Palo Alto residents should brace themselves for a dramatic spike in their utility bills in July, with electricity, gas, water and wastewater rates all set to go up at the same time.[Friday, February 5, 2016]
Candidates rake in cash for Assembly race
With the race to succeed Assemblyman Rich Gordon in Sacramento heating up, Cupertino Mayor Barry Chang has raised more than $330,000 for his campaign, overtaking Palo Alto Councilman Marc Berman and Mountain View Councilman Mike Kasperzak, according to the documents filed earlier this week with the California Secretary of State.[Thursday, February 4, 2016]