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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's popular muralist Greg Brown dies
Greg Brown, a Palo Alto muralist whose elaborate, realistic and often whimsical depictions of crooks, aliens, cunning animals and everyday people have been shocking and amusing local pedestrians for nearly four decades, died Friday after a brief battle with cancer. He was 62.[Tuesday, September 2, 2014]
Palo Alto's popular muralist Greg Brown dies
Greg Brown, a Palo Alto muralist whose elaborate, realistic and often whimsical depictions of crooks, aliens, cunning animals and everyday people have been shocking and amusing local pedestrians for nearly four decades, died Friday after a brief battle with cancer. He was 62.[Tuesday, September 2, 2014]
County to resurface sections of Arastradero
Several sections of Arastradero Road near Palo Alto will be refurbished in the next month as part of a Santa Clara County road project that commenced Monday, Sept. 1.[Sunday, August 31, 2014]
Suspect sought in Thursday groping near California Avenue
Palo Alto police are looking for a man who they say groped a woman near a Park Boulevard business on Thursday, Aug. 28.[Friday, August 29, 2014]
Commission: Palo Alto parks struggling to keep up with growth
With parking and traffic dominating Palo Alto's debate over a new "community vision," the Parks and Recreation Commission is urging the City Council in a memo to pay more attention to local parks, which commissioners say are struggling to keep up with the city's recent growth spurt.[Saturday, August 30, 2014]
Embarcadero Road fixes coming to Palo Alto
On Wednesday, Palo Alto officials presented a suite of options for tackling what they characterized as one of the city's most challenging traffic puzzles.[Friday, August 29, 2014]
Palo Alto commission defends 'planned community' zoning
Despite much community anxiety, Palo Alto's planning commissioners made a case Wednesday for preserving the city's "planned community" zoning process, a controversial procedure by which developers circumvent zoning regulations in exchange for negotiated "public benefits."[Thursday, August 28, 2014]
Ruling paves the way for Buena Vista's closure
The closure of Palo Alto's sole mobile-home park became more imminent Wednesday, when an administrative judge upheld the property owner's plan for compensating the roughly 400 residents who would be displaced when Buena Vista Mobile Home shutters.[Wednesday, August 27, 2014]
Man arrested for hate crime, cane attack in downtown Palo Alto
Palo Alto police have arrested a man who they say committed a hate crime Saturday night when he yelled racial epithets and attacked two older men in a downtown parking lot, in one case smashing a cane across a victim's forehead.[Wednesday, August 27, 2014]
Design contest set for new Palo Alto bike bridge
Palo Alto officials agree that the city's new bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101 should be a "landmark" structure that showcases the region's spirit of innovation while at the same time providing a gentle transition into the marshy nature preserves of the Baylands. But coming up with the perfect design promises to be a lengthy and complex affair.[Tuesday, August 26, 2014]