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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, Pets In Need vow to pursue new agreement
Seeking to preserve their relationship after a rancorous split, Palo Alto and its animal services provider, Pets In Need, vowed to work on a new deal that would keep the operator in the city beyond this year.[Tuesday, February 15, 2022]
As Cubberley progress stalls, city ponders land swap with school district
After watching its plan to rebuild Cubberley Community Center in a partnership with the school district go off the rails, the City Council agreed to pursue a new strategy for the dilapidated campus: going it alone.[Monday, February 14, 2022]
Palo Alto and Pets In Need look to extend partnership after bitter dispute
After a dramatic rupture last year following the death of seven puppies, the city and nonprofit are working to mend their relationship and ink a new deal that would prolong their agreement.[Friday, February 11, 2022]
Palo Alto moves to bolster police staffing as revenues recover
After making cuts in the Police Department over the past two years in response to dwindling revenues, Palo Alto accelerated its push to hire more officers as part of a major adjustment to the city's budget.[Tuesday, February 8, 2022]
Will Cal. Ave. remain a permanent promenade?
When Palo Alto closed a portion of California Avenue to cars in the early stage of the pandemic, visitors, restaurant owners and retailers in the city's "second downtown" instantly felt a profound, if uneven, shift.[Tuesday, February 8, 2022]
Affordable housing, economic recovery top Palo Alto's priority list in 2022
Economic recovery will remain a top priority in Palo Alto in 2022, city leaders agreed on Saturday, though they had different ideas about what that means. Housing, climate change and "community health and safety" also made the list.[Saturday, February 5, 2022]
Review finds flaws in officer's actions after 2020 police dog attack
A new report from Palo Alto's independent auditor takes issue with a victim interview that took place after a police officer deployed a dog on a man who was sleeping in a Mountain View shed in 2020.[Friday, February 4, 2022]
After employee's death, Palo Alto fights charges of safety violations
Electric lineman Donatus Okhomina Jr. was Palo Alto's first utility employee to die in the line of duty in more than three decades. The city's appeal of Cal/OSHA's citations continues to drag on after the 2019 accident.[Friday, February 4, 2022]
Rocked by thefts, residents at Palo Alto condo complex ask for help
Sharon Lee-Nakayama moved to Altaire Walk in 2010 and for the first decade she didn't worry about crime. But things changed abruptly in March 2020, when thefts at the residential complex became routine and increasingly brazen.[Thursday, February 3, 2022]
City Council rejects proposal to sell Palo Alto's water rights
A proposal by two City Council members to sell some of Palo Alto's unused water rights to another city fell flat on Monday, with most of their colleagues indicating they would not back the ambitious plan.[Tuesday, February 1, 2022]