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Gennady Sheyner

Staff Writer, Palo Alto Weekly / PaloAltoOnline.com

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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 rejects appeal, allows Verizon to install wireless equipment
Rejecting an appeal from a group of residents, the Palo Alto City Council approved last week a plan by Verizon to install wireless equipment on three city poles.
[Thursday, July 1, 2021]
CinéArts, a haven for local cinephiles, permanently shutters
CinéArts at Palo Alto Square, a movie theater that for decades has been a popular destination for local film lovers, will not be reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic, the theater's parent company has confirmed.
[Tuesday, June 29, 2021]
City, Tesla strike deal to install 'Superchargers' at downtown parking garage
Eager to accelerate the public transition to electric vehicles, the City Council signed a deal last week with Tesla, allowing the company to install 19 vehicle chargers at the city-owned garage on Bryant Street.
[Wednesday, June 30, 2021]
CinéArts, a haven for local cinephiles, permanently shutters
CinéArts at Palo Alto Square, a movie theater that for decades has been a popular destination for local film lovers, will not be reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic, the theater's parent company has confirmed.
[Tuesday, June 29, 2021]
Palo Alto hopes to hone its lobbying efforts in Sacramento
Seeking to expand its influence in Sacramento, the Palo Alto City Council agreed on Tuesday night to take a more focused and active approach to lobbying for and against pending legislation.
[Wednesday, June 23, 2021]
University and California avenues will stay car-free through September
Palo Alto's experiment with car-free downtown streets will stretch at least until the end of September after the City Council rejected a proposal to reopen its main commercial strips to cars sooner.
[Wednesday, June 23, 2021]
To support affordable housing, Palo Alto eyes fee hike for office projects
Seeking to get more funding for affordable housing projects, Palo Alto is renewing its effort to sharply increase the impact fees that the city charges for new commercial developments.
[Wednesday, June 23, 2021]
Divided City Council approves budget, avoids service cuts
Buoyed by federal funds, cash reserves and increasingly optimistic revenue projections, the City Council on Monday passed a new budget, which includes $209.2 million in expenditures.
[Monday, June 21, 2021]
Palo Alto selects new city clerk
Palo Alto has concluded its search for a new city clerk, with the City Council preparing to name Lesley Milton on Monday as the successor to outgoing clerk Beth Minor.
[Thursday, June 17, 2021]
Shifting politics boost Palo Alto's quest for a history museum
Palo Alto is preparing to advance next week a project that local leaders have been debating for the past two decades: the rehabilitation of the Roth Building so that it can serve as the city's new history museum.
[Thursday, June 17, 2021]