Suarez said that Acevedo will start his new job in the next four to eight weeks since Acevedo requested some buffer time out of respect for Mayor Sylvester Turner.
The ever outspoken Acevedo sure seemed fired-up about the next chapter of his career in his remarks to the Miami media Monday morning.
“In my heart,” Acevedo said, “I knew that my mayor, Sylvester Turner… I knew his time was coming up, and I was contemplating what’s next. Because politics are not in my heart, because as you know, I have no home, I piss off the left and the right to be honest with you… but service is in my heart.”
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Mar 15, 2021
100,000 Miami-Dade households will be getting free high-speed internet due to a $30 million program by hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin.
County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, organized with the Miami Foundation and Achieve Miami to launch Miami Connected. W
Comcast, will connect households in Overtown, Little Haiti, Liberty City and Homestead, and over the next two years connect throughout the county on a school-by-school basis.
Griffin, has pledged $5 million along with other commitments from the city of Miami, the Children’s Trust, and Achieve Miami Founder Leslie Miller Saiontz.
Miami taps Houston s top cop for police chief post
FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2019 file photo, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo speaks during a press conference at HPD headquarters in Houston. Acevedo, the Houston police chief who forged a national profile by calling for gun controls, marching with protesters after George Floyd s death and criticizing President Donald Trump is taking the top job in the Miami Police Department, news outlets reported, Monday, March 15, 2021. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
Houston Police Department Chief Art Acevedo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner talk by the new federally-supported and state-managed COVID-19 vaccination clinic tents at NRG Park, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in Houston. (Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via AP)