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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 City Council members balk at raising Junior Museum and Zoo ticket prices
Despite some first-year hiccups and underwhelming revenues, Palo Alto officials are in no rush to raise ticket prices to the newly rebuilt Junior Museum and Zoo, a popular attraction for Midpeninsula families.[Thursday, September 8, 2022]
Santa Clara County plan looks to shield foothills from Stanford growth
For decades, the county and Stanford have operated under an understanding that any growth proposals by the university should steer clear of the foothills. The county's new planning effort is testing that consensus.[Friday, September 9, 2022]
After initial backlash, Palo Alto again mulls raising ticket prices for Junior Museum and Zoo
With revenues falling below expectations, Palo Alto is once again considering hiking ticket prices at the newly rebuilt Junior Museum and Zoo.[Sunday, September 4, 2022]
New housing bills target parking rules, commercial sites
California cities would be required to abolish parking mandates in transit-rich areas and allow housing developments at sites zoned for office and retail use under bills that state legislators passed this week.[Wednesday, August 31, 2022]
State bill on police radio encryption dies in committee
A proposal to require California law enforcement agencies to find alternatives to full encryption of radio communications fizzled Thursday when the state Assembly Appropriations Committee declined to advance the bill.[Thursday, August 11, 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.[Monday, August 8, 2022]
Menlo Park man arrested for indecent exposure at a Palo Alto 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.[Monday, August 8, 2022]
Cost dispute casts shadow in debate over police radio encryption bill
The fate of a bill that would require police departments to remove encryption from their radio communications was uncertain Wednesday after the Assembly Appropriations Committee deferred a decision on SB 1000.[Thursday, August 4, 2022]
Bracing for Stanford growth, county looks to beef up housing, transportation requirements
Santa Clara County is preparing to adopt new policies that would require Stanford University to construct more affordable housing and add new traffic regulations as part of any future growth plan.[Wednesday, July 20, 2022]
Bill to remove police radio encryption faces pushback
A bill authored by state Sen. Josh Becker that would restore media access to police radio communications got past the Assembly Public Safety on Tuesday. Even supporters, however, warned that the bill's fate remains far from certain.[Wednesday, June 22, 2022]