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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
City Council review boosts proposed condo project
The Palo Alto City Council signaled its desire to encourage more housing on the city's southern edge on Monday night, when it gave rave reviews to a proposed condominium project at 800 San Antonio Road.[Tuesday, August 16, 2022]
Doria Summa, land-use watchdog, eyes council seat
Doria Summa, a longtime neighborhood activist and current vice chair of the Planning and Transportation Commission, appears poised to run for a seat on the City Council.[Monday, August 15, 2022]
State bill on police radio encryption dies in committee
A proposal to require law enforcement agencies to find alternatives to full encryption of radio communications fizzled Thursday when the Assembly's Appropriations Committee declined to advance the bill.[Thursday, August 11, 2022]
After eleventh-hour deal, business tax lands on ballot
Palo Alto voters will have a chance in November to approve a business tax, though the measure they'll be considering will be far more modest than the one that the City Council was contemplating just days ago.[Wednesday, August 10, 2022]
Palo Alto prepares for key decisions on fiber expansion
As Palo Alto embarks on its journey to build a citywide fiber-optic network that delivers high-speed internet, a new analysis of the proposed system is giving city leaders both hope and anxiety.[Thursday, August 11, 2022]
Palo Alto hopes for last-ditch deal on business tax
With the clock ticking toward the final deadline, the City Council deferred yet again its decision on creating a business tax in hopes of reaching a last-second compromise with a coalition of opponents.[Monday, August 8, 2022]
City Council affirms Andrew Binder as Palo Alto's new police chief
Andrew Binder, who has been leading the Police Department for the past two months, officially became the police chief on Monday after the City Council voted to approve his appointment.[Monday, August 8, 2022]
Man arrested for indecent exposure at El Camino Park
A Menlo Park man was arrested on Friday afternoon after he allegedly exposed himself to a 4-year-old boy at El Camino Park, Palo Alto police said in a news release.[Sunday, August 7, 2022]
Parking lot fire destroys McLaren office, Tesla batteries
A pallet of Tesla batteries, a McLaren business office and a Ford pickup truck went up in flames Sunday morning in a shared south Palo Alto parking lot.[Sunday, August 7, 2022]
Police: Man arrested after bike shop robbery
A man who allegedly threatened a Cardinal Bike Shop employee left with cash after a failed attempt to sell a used electric bike on Friday.[Saturday, August 6, 2022]