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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
Developer scales down plan for contested Maybell Avenue site
Faced with criticism from the surrounding neighborhood, the developer looking to build houses on a much contested Maybell Avenue property has agreed to scale down the proposal.[Wednesday, July 22, 2015]
Berman, Kasperzak off to fast starts in bid for Sacramento
The primary election is still nearly a year away but the two leading contenders to replace Assemblyman Rich Gordon in Sacramento have hit the ground running, with each raising more than $100,000 and picking up a list of endorsements from regional dignitaries.[Tuesday, July 21, 2015]
Teenager targeted with racial slurs, stabbed with screwdriver in Palo Alto garage
A teenager was allegedly attacked from behind, accosted with racial epithets and stabbed with a screwdriver as he was walking through a downtown Palo Alto garage Wednesday night in an incident that police are investigating as a hate crime.[Friday, July 17, 2015]
Housing would replace AAA building on Forest Avenue
A squat office building on a leafy Forest Avenue block would make way for two multi-story residential buildings under a proposal currently making its way through Palo Alto's approval process.[Thursday, July 16, 2015]
Palo Alto prepares to boost fencing, add sensors on rail tracks
With Palo Alto preparing to install cameras and boost fencing around the rail tracks, city officials are inviting the community to a meeting later this month to discuss these changes.[Thursday, July 16, 2015]
Citizen panel brings focus to Palo Alto's long-term vision
They came to the Mitchell Park Library from different neighborhoods, backgrounds and ideological corners to work toward a shared goal: figuring out what Palo Alto should look like for the next 15 years.[Wednesday, July 15, 2015]
Second prowling incident reported in Palo Alto
Palo Alto police are looking for a man who was reportedly lurking outside a private residence early Tuesday morning, the second prowling incident to occur in the city in the past week.[Tuesday, July 14, 2015]
Palo Alto seeks lobbyist help on pensions, taxes, plane noise
From pension reform to airplane noise, Palo Alto's elected leaders routinely find themselves wrestling over issues over which they have no jurisdiction and little influence. That's where the lobbyists come in.[Tuesday, July 14, 2015]
Police: Teen smashed jar over man's head during dispute over pot
A Palo Alto teenager who allegedly smashed a glass jar over the head of an adult acquaintance during a dispute over marijuana and then broke into a Barron Park home to avoid the police was booked 36 hours after the beating when he turned himself in.[Monday, July 13, 2015]
Police use Taser to nab burglary suspect
Palo Alto police chased down, shocked with a Taser and arrested a 27-year-man who they said was attempting to burglarize a home in Old Palo Alto on Friday morning.[Friday, July 10, 2015]