Harriet Rowan

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Harriet Rowan

California’s population increased by 108,000 people last year, growing for the second year in a row, according to new estimates released by the California Department of Finance. This new data solidifies what last year’s data showed for the first time: The much-discussed exodus has ended, after three years of population losses during early coronavirus pandemic disruptions and California’s stricter-than-average lockdown rules.

2 weeks ago | masstransitmag.com | Harriet Rowan

Mingwei Samuel is a 27-year-old research software engineer, living with his parents in Piedmont, close to where Piedmont Ave. runs into Oakland. When he’s not biking around the Bay Area, he has been helping organize a volunteer mini public works department of sorts, building and installing bus benches around the East Bay. Q: Where did this idea come from? A: In early 2023, I built my first bench. I had seen and heard about the ones in the Richmond District in San Francisco, made by Chris Duderstadt.

2 weeks ago | mercurynews.com | Harriet Rowan

A new study from Stanford University researchers paints a picture of a near-future where diseases, once eradicated in the country, could realistically return. Widespread vaccination against measles led to the virus being declared eradicated in the United States in 2000. California has higher-than-average vaccination rates. Last school year, 96.2% of kindergarteners in the state were vaccinated against measles, but that is slightly down from the year before.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Harriet Rowan

Mingwei Samuel is a 27-year-old research software engineer, living with his parents in Piedmont, close to where Piedmont Ave. runs into Oakland. When he’s not biking around the Bay Area, he has been helping organize a volunteer mini public works department of sorts, building and installing bus benches around the East Bay. Q: Where did this idea come from? A: In early 2023, I built my first bench. I had seen and heard about the ones in the Richmond District in San Francisco, made by Chris Duderstadt.

2 weeks ago | mercurynews.com | Harriet Rowan

When Mingwei Samuel not biking around the Bay Area, he has been helping organize a volunteer mini public works department of sorts, building and installing bus benches around the East Bay.