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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
Council favors Sherman Avenue lot for new police headquarters
Palo Alto's glacial journey toward its most urgent priority -- a new police headquarters -- may finally reach its terminus in a nondescript parking lot on Sherman Avenue.[Thursday, May 7, 2015]
Nonprofit joins effort to preserve Buena Vista
The Caritas Corporation, a nonprofit organization that manages 20 mobile-home parks throughout California, has joined the last-ditch effort by Santa Clara County and Palo Alto officials to avert the closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park.[Wednesday, May 6, 2015]
Santa Clara County supervisor to propose plan to save Buena Vista
An eleventh-hour plan to save Buena Vista Mobile Home Park from closure is expected to be unveiled tonight by Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who has been leading the charge by allocating funding and finding a nonprofit partner to preserve the mobile-home park.[Wednesday, May 6, 2015]
Council halts divisive downtown project
Two months after it seemingly secured the city's approval, a divisive four-story development proposed for the former site of Shady Lane on University Avenue found itself back in planning purgatory Tuesday morning.[Tuesday, May 5, 2015]
Suspected thief caught on video in College Terrace
Palo Alto police are seeking a man who they said went on a thieving spree in the College Terrace neighborhood on Thursday night and whose image they believe was briefly captured by a resident's surveillance camera.[Monday, May 4, 2015]
Body cameras to become the new norm for Palo Alto police
After a year of experimentation, body cameras are about to go mainstream in the Palo Alto Police Department. City Manager James Keene's new budget proposes buying 90 body-worn cameras for the city's police force.[Saturday, May 2, 2015]
Palo Alto's smoking ban may spread to apartment buildings
E-cigarettes may soon join their traditional brethren in a Palo Alto law that bans smoking in downtown centers, local parks and outdoor dining establishments. They would not, however, be included in a new cigarette ban that the city is considering for apartment buildings.[Saturday, May 2, 2015]
Contentious road project heads toward final phase
After more than a decade of work, a deeply controversial effort to transform the Charleston-Arastradero corridor into a "complete street" full of bike lanes, crosswalk improvements and other traffic-calming measures is now entering its final stretch.[Wednesday, April 29, 2015]
Focus shifts to city-owned sites for new police building
Palo Alto has few great options for pursuing its most urgent infrastructure priority -- a new police headquarters -- but three possibilities have recently emerged as the least bad of the bunch.[Wednesday, April 29, 2015]
Groping suspect surrenders after social-media buzz
The man who police said groped a 12-year-old girl at a Stanford Shopping Center market on Sunday afternoon turned himself in to the Palo Alto police two days later after a surveillance photo from the incident went viral on social media.[Wednesday, April 29, 2015]