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“My mom, who’s drunk, is trying to prevent me from leaving!”

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Housing

On May 1, 2026, a young woman called police from the Plymouth Crossing apartments to report her mother (who can be heard screaming in the background) was drunk and trying to keep her from driving away.

Marsha Michaelis

Project Coordinator and Research Fellow, Fix Homelessness Initiative
Marsha Michaelis is a project coordinator and research fellow for Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty and the Fix Homelessness Initiative. She interned with Discovery in the late 90’s while studying at Seattle Pacific University, then spent more than a decade directing communications and education reform at a Washington State-based think tank. She left the office to raise and educate her four children, spending another decade directing various homeschool programs and teaching classes from kindergarten through high school. Marsha has written as a columnist and freelancer for numerous state and national publications, most recently and currently for her county’s monthly newspaper. She and her family live in northeast Washington state.