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Gennady Sheyner

Staff Writer, Palo Alto Weekly / PaloAltoOnline.com

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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 Council: the battle for the fifth seat
Lydia Kou and Cory Wolbach, candidates for Palo Alto City Council, have been locked in a razor-thin contest for the fifth and final seat since the first election results were released Tuesday night.
[Thursday, November 6, 2014]
Palo Alto man arrested for allegedly firing pellet gun at Jiffy Lube
No one was injured in a Jiffy Lube after a Palo Alto man allegedly fired his pellet gun at the business across the street from his home last Thursday.
[Wednesday, November 5, 2014]
Holman, Scharff, DuBois and Filseth secure Palo Alto council seats
In a sweeping victory for critics of recent development trends, Palo Alto voters elected on Tuesday three City Council candidates backed by a slow-growth citizens group, while a fourth candidate enjoyed a razor-thin lead for the final council seat.
[Wednesday, November 5, 2014]
Smaller Palo Alto council? Voters say 'yes'
Palo Alto voters agreed to reduce the size of the City Council from nine to seven seats on Tuesday night, when they passed Measure D.
[Wednesday, November 5, 2014]
Palo Alto voters pass hotel-tax hike
Palo Alto voters gave their leaders a boost in solving the city's infrastructure problems on Election Day, overwhelmingly supporting a proposal to raise the city's hotel tax rate from 12 percent to 14 percent.
[Wednesday, November 5, 2014]
Palo Alto council not sold on new development fees
A proposal to charge Palo Alto developers new fees to fund public-safety and government facilities ran into a wall of opposition Monday night when City Council members blasted the methodology used to come up with the new revenue source and demanded a fresh analysis.
[Tuesday, November 4, 2014]
Palo Alto grapples with retail preservation
With protecting retail now a pressing priority in Palo Alto, members of the City Council wrestled on Monday with the questions of what exactly constitutes "retail" and how exactly to preserve it.
[Tuesday, November 4, 2014]
Popular city clerk says farewell to Palo Alto
After 15 years and 653 meetings, Palo Alto City Clerk Donna Grider bid her final adieu on Monday night in an emotional ceremony that ended with her reminding the council that they still have to vote on a resolution in her honor.
[Monday, November 3, 2014]
Palo Alto voters pass hotel-tax hike
Palo Alto voters gave their leaders a boost in solving the city's infrastructure problems on Election Day, overwhelmingly supporting a proposal to raise the city's hotel tax rate from 12 percent to 14 percent.
[Tuesday, November 4, 2014]
Smaller City Council? Voters lean toward 'yes'
Palo Alto voters were on the verge of reducing the size of the City Council from nine to seven seats on Tuesday night, with Measure D eking out an early but strong lead with the absentee ballots counted.
[Tuesday, November 4, 2014]