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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
Developer scales down plan for condo project near Town & Country Village
After getting a mixed reception from the Palo Alto City Council last year, a developer is scaling back his plans for a condominium project behind Town & Country Village.[Thursday, November 2, 2023]
Palo Alto launches construction on transitional housing in the Baylands
Palo Alto's elected leaders joined state dignitaries and housing advocates to celebrate the construction of a housing project that is unlike any other in the city: an apartment complex focused on unhoused individuals.[Wednesday, November 1, 2023]
After pandemic backslide, Stanford hospitals ordered to ramp up commute programs
Stanford's hospitals will avoid financial penalties despite failing to meet their legally binding transportation goals. They will, however, have to speed up efforts to get employees out of cars, Palo Alto officials agreed Monday.[Tuesday, October 24, 2023]
'None of us are OK.' Vigil brings different faiths together to support Israel
What began as a chat between a few Palo Alto neighbors evolved on Saturday into vigil that brought about 200 people of different faiths and backgrounds to Mitchell Park to support Israel and denounce Hamas.[Monday, October 23, 2023]
Responding to 'Zoom bomb' disruptions, Palo Alto school board set to suspend virtual commenting
The Palo Alto Unified School District will temporarily ban members of the public from addressing the school board via Zoom -- a prohibition that was inspired by a series of lewd, racist comments that disrupted a City Council meeting.[Thursday, October 19, 2023]
Stanford hospitals struggle to keep employees from driving to work
When Stanford University received permission in 2011 to construct of new hospitals and medical buildings, it pledged to steer its workers away from cars and toward buses, trains and shuttles. The pandemic has disrupted these plans.[Thursday, October 19, 2023]
Police: Stanford shooting suspect nabbed at Trader Joe's in Town & Country
Palo Alto police swarmed Town & Country Village on Tuesday, Oct. 17, and detained a man who had walked into the Trader Joe's with a gun and who officers believe shot a woman in the leg at Stanford University campus earlier that day.[Wednesday, October 18, 2023]
Stymied by red tape, Caltrain looks to repair rail bridge after storm damage
Facing the prospect of another wet winter, Palo Alto and Menlo Park are keeping a particularly watchful eye on the San Francisquito Creek rail bridge, an aged span where Caltrain found bank erosion after the Dec. 31 storm.[Wednesday, October 18, 2023]
Santa Clara County adopts plan to steer housing toward Stanford University campus
After decades of building and buying housing in surrounding cities, Stanford University will now have to look to own campus for future residential growth under a plan that Santa Clara County supervisors approved Tuesday afternoon.[Wednesday, October 18, 2023]
Palo Alto council members denounce hate after 'Zoom bomb' disruptions
Minutes after honoring victims in Israel and Gaza with an expression of solidarity and a moment of silence, the Palo Alto City Council found itself confronted by racist and antisemitic comments during the public comment period.[Tuesday, October 17, 2023]