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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
Karen Holman wins mayor's seat in Palo Alto
Signaling a philosophical and political shift in City Hall, Palo Alto's new City Council on Monday night elected Karen Holman and Greg Schmid as its mayor and vice mayor for 2015.[Monday, January 5, 2015]
Lawyers squabble over rules in appeal of Buena Vista's closure
When the new City Council convenes for its first substantive meeting of the year, it will immediately plunge into one of the city's most emotionally charged and legally complex issues: the fate of Palo Alto's sole mobile-home park and its more than 400 residents.[Thursday, January 1, 2015]
Man arrested for indecent exposure in downtown Palo Alto
A South San Francisco man who police said lewdly exposed himself to two people in front of a downtown Palo Alto business on Friday afternoon was arrested minutes after the incident.[Sunday, December 28, 2014]
Palo Alto: Man who tried to run over officers nabbed after late-night manhunt
A man who police said almost drove a stolen truck into a police officer in a downtown Palo Alto parking lot was captured early Sunday morning after a manhunt that concluded when he crashed the truck into a fence at Seale Park, fled into a residential area and was bitten by a police dog while preparing to hop a fence in a Loma Verde backyard.[Sunday, December 28, 2014]
New library? Check. Free Wi-Fi? Check.
Sometimes it's hard to keep track of what actually has been completed, especially when a project drags on for months, if not years. Here's a quick guide to what's new in the city this year and what will soon be finished.[Saturday, December 27, 2014]
2014: The year the game changed
In the defining act of 2013, Palo Alto residents rebuffed elected officials by rejecting Measure D in the November election, effectively shooting down a proposal to build a dense housing development on Maybell Avenue. The effects of that election didn't just spill over into 2014, they in many ways defined it.[Friday, December 26, 2014]
Four game changers of 2014
Jessica Sullivan, Andrew Swanson, Elaine Uang, and Roger Smith worked behind the scenes to bring big changes to Palo Alto.[Friday, December 26, 2014]
Proposed zone changes in Palo Alto target hazardous-material sites
Palo Alto's decision in October to phase out Communications & Power Industries's plating-shop operation marks the first step in the city's broader effort to separate industrial operations from residential neighborhoods.[Saturday, December 27, 2014]
New zone change proposed for busy El Camino Real intersection
With Palo Alto's controversial "planned community" process suspended indefinitely, a developer who was hoping to win the zoning designation for a four-story project at the prominent corner of El Camino Real and Page Mill Road is now pursuing a different strategy.[Thursday, December 25, 2014]
Palo Alto set to break ground on El Camino Park
The long-awaited reconstruction of the small but busy El Camino Park is finally set to kick off next month after the City Council signed off on more than $5 million in contracts to pay for a host of park amenities.[Wednesday, December 24, 2014]