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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
The Battle for City Hall: The Challengers
They are a concert producer, a civics teacher, an aerospace engineer, an advocate for the homeless, a legislative aide and a globe-trotting partner at a high-profile law firm.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]
The Battle for City Hall: The Residentialists
They say it's not a slate, and we'll take their word for it. The non-slate includes council hopefuls Eric Filseth, Tom DuBois and Lydia Kou. Together with incumbent Karen Holman, their campaign signs are lawn-mates all over the city; they lament the fast pace of local development; and they believe the majority of the City Council is out of touch.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]
The Battle for City Hall: The Incumbents
When Karen Holman, Greg Scharff and Nancy Shepherd took their oaths of office five years ago, budget deficits, the future of compost and high-speed rail were the issues dominating City Hall.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]
Candidate profile: The Protector — Wayne Douglass
Call him a single-issue candidate, if you want to. Wayne Douglass doesn't care. That's because he believes his issue -- homelessness -- is important enough to warrant a candidate.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]
Candidate profile: The Diplomat — Cory Wolbach
It's hard to disagree with Cory Wolbach when he talks about the things he wants to achieve if elected to the City Council: restoring civility, encouraging diversity and making residents feel more included.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]
Candidate profile: The Engineer — Seelam Reddy
Seelam Reddy is a retired aerospace engineer who believes Palo Alto is "heaven on earth" but who nevertheless hopes to make the city work 10 times better.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]
Candidate profile: The Agitator — Mark Weiss
If you've ever heard Mark Weiss address the City Council, you will almost certainly know three things about him: He graduated from Gunn High School, he talks fast and he views new development with a mixture of fear and loathing.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]
Candidate profile: The Teacher — John Fredrich
John Fredrich is a political idealist who also happens to be steeped in the gritty details of Palo Alto's zoning debate.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]
Candidate profile: The Organizer — Lydia Kou
Palo Altans generally care about two things: staying alive and new developments (not necessarily in that order). Recent history suggests Lydia Kou cares about them more than most. A long-time fixture of Palo Alto's growing corps of disaster-preparedness volunteers, Kou has spent years on the front lines of getting the community ready for the next Big One.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]
Candidate profile: The Data Guy — Eric Filseth
In December 2013, Downtown North resident Eric Filseth offered what may be the defining soliloquy in Palo Alto's current land-use debate. Voters had just emphatically defeated Measure D, rejecting a housing development that was supported by the entire City Council. Developer Jay Paul Co., seeing the political winds shift, dropped its plan to build a zone-busting office complex at 395 Page Mill Road. And the council had just scheduled a public meeting to discuss the future of the city.[Thursday, October 9, 2014]