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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
Voters approve business tax, back use of gas funds to pay for city services
Palo Alto voters offered the City Council a financial lifeline by approving a business tax and emphatically affirming its historic practice of using gas utility revenues to pay for basic city services.[Wednesday, November 9, 2022]
Veenker, Lauing and Lythcott-Haims win City Council seats
Attorney Vicki Veenker and planning commissioner Ed Lauing were in the lead position in a race for Palo Alto's three open City Council seats, with author Julie Lythcott-Haims in third place, early results show.[Tuesday, November 8, 2022]
City Council splits over dinosaur sculptures at Junior Museum and Zoo
It's an expenditure that could raise eyebrows in the best of times -- seven dinosaur sculptures and giant fossils that would tower over visitors at the Junior Museum and Zoo and cost more than $400,000.[Tuesday, November 8, 2022]
With fewer workers coming in, Palo Alto looks to rethink retail
After taking a heavy hit during the pandemic, Palo Alto's main shopping strips appear to be on the rebound. They're getting extra attention from the City Council, which is creating a new retail strategy.[Tuesday, November 8, 2022]
Battling bias in policing: How we reported this story
The Palo Alto Weekly relied on Public Records Act requests, interviews with experts and reviews of statewide data on police stops to analyze trends within the city's Police Department in the first three months of this year.[Friday, November 4, 2022]
Battling bias in policing: Driving disparities
The high rate of stops of individuals perceived as Black is hardly unique to Palo Alto.[Friday, November 4, 2022]
Battling bias in law enforcement: What data reveals about the Palo Alto police
An analysis of the 962 stops of individuals by Palo Alto police officers during the first three months of this year indicates that the same types of racial disparities seen in other jurisdictions across California also exist locally.[Friday, November 4, 2022]
Endorsements reveal political split among Palo Alto City Council candidates
With Election Day approaching, current and past Palo Alto leaders who hold differing views on housing growth have lined up behind different pairs of candidates for City Council, and the city's mayor has switched his endorsement.[Wednesday, November 2, 2022]
Fundraising and loans give Lythcott-Haims and Summa financial edge in City Council race
Boosted by a strong fundraising month and personal loans, author Julia Lythcott-Haims and planning commissioner Doria Summa head into the final stretch of their campaigns with the most cash.[Friday, October 28, 2022]
Palo Alto moves toward adoption of license plate readers
Palo Alto edged closer to installing automated license plate readers in about two dozen locations around town when the City Council tentatively supported a police proposal to adopt the technology.[Wednesday, October 26, 2022]