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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 slammed for lack of transparency on Arrillaga proposals
Palo Alto officials circumvented the public process and ignored the city's own policies about leasing of public land when they engaged in closed-door negotiations with billionaire developer John Arrillaga over a proposed office-and-theater complex at 27 University Ave. and a portion of parkland next to Foothills Park, the Santa Clara County Grand Jury found in a scathing new report.[Friday, June 20, 2014]
Flood-control project stymied by regional water board
For more than a decade, officials from Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park have been drawing up plans, scouring for funds and performing environmental studies on a project that would finally bring flood protection to residents around the volatile San Francisquito Creek.[Friday, June 20, 2014]
Palo Alto looks to raise council salaries
Having approved raises for most city workers over the past year, the Palo Alto City Council is now shifting its focus toward a group that hasn't seen a salary adjustment since 2001 -- the council itself.[Wednesday, June 18, 2014]
Smoking ban spreads to Palo Alto business districts
From local parks and nature preserves to business districts, shopping centers and outdoor dining tables, Palo Alto's smoking ban is quickly spreading.[Tuesday, June 17, 2014]
Palo Alto to review plan for new animal shelter
A proposal to rebuild and greatly expand Palo Alto's aged animal-services center got off to a promising start Monday night when the City Council quickly and unanimously forwarded the idea to its Finance Committee for review.[Tuesday, June 17, 2014]
Palo Alto council reduction heads to the ballot
Palo Alto voters will have a chance to reduce the number of seats on their City Council in November after a deeply ambivalent council voted Monday night to place the issue on the ballot. A separate proposal to extend council term limits from two to three fell by a single vote and will not appear on the ballot.[Tuesday, June 17, 2014]
Palo Alto councilwoman fends off criticism over 'finder's fees'
Palo Alto City Councilwoman Karen Holman, who has spent more than a decade advocating for more transparency in city government, found herself fending off criticism this week for failing to disclose funding she had received from a real-estate company that proposed to rezone an Arastradero Road site to accommodate more housing.[Friday, June 13, 2014]
Paly graduate covers the crisis in Ukraine
Noah Sneider, a 2009 graduate of Palo Alto High School, has been splitting his year between Moscow, where he took part in the media manhunt for Edward Snowden, and Ukraine, where he's been helping The New York Times, Al Jazeera and Eurasianet.org cover one of the world's most explosive and complex hot zones.[Friday, June 13, 2014]
Palo Alto Humane Society eyes new animal shelter
After two years of uncertainty and a brush with closure, Palo Alto's aged animal shelter could undergo a radical expansion and transformation under a new plan proposed by the Palo Alto Humane Society.[Thursday, June 12, 2014]
Page Mill Road development moves forward
The latest major development proposed for the bustling, congested and rapidly transforming area around Page Mill Road and El Camino Real won the support of Palo Alto's planning commissioners on Wednesday night, despite concerns about adding more office space to an area already facing commercial growth.[Thursday, June 12, 2014]