Robin Washington

Columnist, Editor, Producer

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Do You Know What Your Car Does?

August 25, 2017 ROBIN WASHINGTON   If you’re not familiar with your new car’s safety features, you’re not alone. Take the 2017 Toyota Corolla. It comes with lane departure alert, a pre-collision system, dynamic radar cruise control and automatic high beams… Continue Reading →

Then and Now: Violin virtuoso Quinton Morris hits a high note

Robin Washington Contributing writer Puget Sound Business Journal Aug. 31, 2017     The Seattle University music professor founded Key to Change, a nonprofit offering discounted classical music lessons for underprivileged students. His violin has taken him around the world,… Continue Reading →

Business Journal profile of U.S. Bank executive earns national journalism award

Aug 18, 2017 Dirk DeYoung, Editor Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal A Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal profile of a U.S. Bank executive earned contributing writer Robin Washington a top journalism award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Washington,… Continue Reading →

The Mass Pike Toll Booths Have Disappeared, But The Tolls Haven’t

August 10, 2017 ROBIN WASHINGTON When the Massachusetts Department of Transportation replaced its toll booths with electronic EZ Pass gantries last fall, they may have made driving easier. But they also took down most of the signs saying where and… Continue Reading →

This Is Happening: Before United Airlines, the history of civil rights abuses in transportation.

Many were stunned this week by the viral footage of a man’s violent removal from an overbooked United Airlines flight—but as author Robin Washington notes in a recent article for The Marshall Project, this use of excessive force in transportation… Continue Reading →

Uneasy Riders: Before United, a legacy of excessive force in transportation

For The Marshall Project, April 12, 2017 The passenger was ordered to move and refused. The rule was grossly unfair, yet the carrier within its rights to enforce it. The traveler’s belligerence may have added fuel to the fire, though… Continue Reading →

EDITORIAL: Headless policy on driverless cars

MARCH 11, 2017   IF THE TRUMP administration can ever get to governing without a daily sideshow, next on the agenda is regulatory reform. Interpret that to mean a field day for Republicans determined to gut everything from environmental protection… Continue Reading →

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