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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
Holman leads by wide margin in race for open space district seat
Palo Alto Councilwoman Karen Holman prevailed Tuesday in an unusually expensive and competitive race for a seat on the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District board against her longtime political adversary, Councilman Greg Scharff, early Election Day results indicat.[Tuesday, November 6, 2018]
Candidates wage expensive contest for open-space district seat
The race between two Palo Alto City Council members for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District has become the most expensive such contest in recent memory, with Greg Scharff injecting a $120,000 loan into his campaign and Councilwoman Karen Holman bringing in more than $20,000 in contributions from supporters.[Wednesday, October 31, 2018]
Holman, Scharff vie for Ward 5 seat on open space district
Their Palo Alto City Council tenures may be coming to an end, but Karen Holman and Greg Scharff are preparing to square off in another competitive election this year, as each is looking to fill a seat on the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District board of directors.[Thursday, October 25, 2018]
Stanford fees for affordable housing to nearly double
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved on Tuesday new policies that require Stanford University to pay higher fees to support affordable housing and to construct more such housing as part of planned expansion.[Tuesday, September 25, 2018]
Study: Stanford can triple its density
As Stanford University advances its request to add more than 2 million square feet of academic space to its campus by 2035, one question that has long bedeviled local residents and policymakers is: How big can the university get? Now, there is an answer.[Wednesday, September 5, 2018]
Federal funds flow to flood-control project
An effort by Palo Alto, Menlo Park and East Palo Alto to boost flood protection around San Francisquito Creek received an unexpected nudge from the federal government last month, when the Army Corps of Engineers received $646,500 to evaluate upstream work, including replacement of the Pope-Chaucer Bridge.[Thursday, July 5, 2018]
Study highlights impacts of adding Stanford housing
As Stanford University moves ahead with a proposal to build more than 2 million square feet of academic space by 2035, it continues to face calls from community members who believe the university should build more housing as part of the expansion.[Monday, June 25, 2018]
Bridge-toll hike poised to pass
Wednesday morning election results show Bay Area voters on the cusp of approving a regional measure that would raise tolls at seven state bridges by $3 to fund $4.5 billion in transportation improvements.[Wednesday, June 6, 2018]
Local leaders split over transportation measure
Few would dispute that the Bay Area urgently needs relief from traffic jams, but reasonable people are finding much to disagree about when it comes to Regional Measure 3, a proposal to raise $4.5 billion for transportation improvements by gradually raising tolls at seven Bay Area bridges.[Monday, May 7, 2018]
In dissent, Eshoo blasts short-term funding bill
Hours after casting her dissenting vote on a bill to fund the federal government until Feb. 8, U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo said short-term measures like the one adopted Monday night represent “negligence and incompetence.”[Tuesday, January 23, 2018]