The Sunday Briefing Is Up: Fugitive Jailed, Mayor Loses an Ally, Residents Fight Back

NEW ROCHELLE, NY (May 11, 2026) — It’s been a busy week, and the Sunday Briefing is up at Words in Edgewise.

This week: a fugitive teacher who fled to Colombia, then Miami, then Louisiana is back in a Westchester jail cell after the warrant squad flew to Baton Rouge to bring him home — and the court set bail at a number you don’t often see on a case that started as a threatening email.

Also this week: a well-connected New Rochelle business owner turns on Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert, and why the story matters a lot more than a grant dispute.

And: residents showed up to the New Rochelle DOZ environmental impact statement hearing on April 14 loaded with substantive questions — the kind that require answers by law. We gathered them all up and published them as a toolkit. That list is going to matter when the final EIS comes out.

All that and more in this week’s Sunday Briefing.

Read it here.