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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
With Measure L, city hopes to preserve a controversial budget practice
City officials are quick to denounce natural gas, which they say contributes to global warming and respiratory illnesses. It also, however, helps them pay for basic services, a practice that Measure L seeks to protect.[Wednesday, October 5, 2022]
Palo Alto shoots for carbon neutrality by 2030
Seeking to make the city a model in the global battle against climate change, the Palo Alto City Council adopted on Monday night an ambitious goal of making the city carbon neutral by 2030.[Tuesday, October 4, 2022]
No slates but plenty of affinities among Palo Alto council candidates
Each of Palo Alto's seven candidates for City Council is officially running an independent campaign and is not a party to any slate. Campaign finance data, however, points to two distinct political blocs.[Thursday, September 29, 2022]
Vicki Veenker: Building connections
Vicki Veenker is well-versed in the art of the compromise. Five years ago, she mediated talks between Sacramento leaders and representatives from the health care industry to come up with a proposal to lower health care costs.[Friday, September 30, 2022]
Doria Summa: Residents first
College Terrace neighborhood resident Doria Summa is well-known around town for both her skepticism of development, her neighborhood activism and her perfect willingness to be the sole dissenting vote.[Friday, September 30, 2022]
Julie Lythcott-Haims: Thriving together
Julie Lythcott-Haims jumped into the City Council race because, she says, there are things worth fighting for: housing, youth mental health, climate action and creating a sense of belonging for everyone in Palo Alto.[Friday, September 30, 2022]
Ed Lauing: Speaking from experience
In a seven-candidate race with zero incumbents, Ed Lauing is the closest thing Palo Alto has to a City Hall veteran.[Friday, September 30, 2022]
Brian Hamachek: Preserve and protect
Brian Hamachek wants to change City Hall culture to preserve the character of the city. More than any other candidate in the City Council race, he believes Palo Alto needs to be protected from outside influences to preserve its charm.[Friday, September 30, 2022]
Lisa Forssell: Seeing green
Lisa Forssell sees a direct connection between rising rents, power outages and the cost of sandwiches and haircuts. The Utilities Advisory Commissioner has spent years advising the City Council on how to make the city more sustainable.[Friday, September 30, 2022]
Alex Comsa: In the driver's seat
Realtor Alex Comsa likes to think big. If he has his way, the Palo Alto Airport would be transformed into a residential community with about 6,000 dwellings and Stanford Shopping Center would be redeveloped to include housing.[Friday, September 30, 2022]