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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
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, D-Palo Alto, said short-term measures like the one adopted Monday night represent “negligence and incompetence.”[Tuesday, January 23, 2018]
Eshoo: Government shutdown an 'embarrassment'
The federal government went into shutdown mode Saturday at midnight after the U.S. Senate failed to get the needed 60 votes for a bill to keep the government running on a short-term basis.[Saturday, January 20, 2018]
Seeing red
"The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution," the joint exhibition by the Cantor Arts Center and Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibition Pavilion, vividly highlights how the Bolshevik Revolution upended Russian art and politics.[Friday, December 29, 2017]
City approves Junior Museum and Zoo expansion
One of Palo Alto's most popular family attractions received a big boost Monday night, when the City Council gleefully backed an ambitious plan to rebuild and expand the Junior Museum and Zoo.[Tuesday, December 5, 2017]
Marshals capture second fugitive who fled courthouse
John Penn Bivins was found by the U.S. Marshals Service on Sunday in San Leandro nearly three weeks after he fled from the Palo Alto courthouse, the U.S. Marshals Service said.[Monday, November 27, 2017]
Cities rush to prepare for new marijuana era
Palo Alto is one of many Midpeninsula cities taking a conservative, wait-and-see approach on sales and cultivation of recreational marijuana, with the City Council preparing to prepare a moratorium on such dispensaries later this month. The Mountain View City Council, on the other hand, aims to revise its codes to permit commercial marijuana activity.[Friday, October 13, 2017]
Gov. Brown signs off on Caltrain's sales-tax measure
The approval of Senate Bill 797 will allow Caltrain to move ahead with a sales-tax increase measure.[Wednesday, October 11, 2017]
Airplane noise reduction proposals under review
The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing more than 100 recommendations that a committee of South Bay legislators drafted last year with the goal of reducing airplane noise in their communities, according to a statement from three congressional leaders.[Sunday, May 21, 2017]
VA Palo Alto sued for veteran's 'wrongful death'
The family of a 72-year-old U.S. Navy veteran has filed a lawsuit in this week against VA Palo Alto Health Care System, alleging that the hospital was reckless and negligent in preventing his death from a traumatic head injury a year ago.[Wednesday, May 17, 2017]
Effort to retire Palo Alto sludge incinerators moves ahead
Seeking to shed Palo Alto's status as one of only two California cities that still burn their sludge, the City Council swiftly approved early Tuesday morning the construction of a nearly $23 million facility that would allow it to decommission the two incinerators in the Baylands.[Tuesday, April 18, 2017]