A group of current and former prosecutors will host the next and third judicial forum for Miami-Dade County and Circuit Court candidates on Thursday — but not everybody is going.

Teressa Maria Cervera, who has always gone professionally by the name Tessa Tylman until this election, has been the only one of 14 judicial wannabes who has not shown up to any forum so far. And she is likely skipping the forum Thursday.

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Miami City Commissioner Christine King wants an office in District 5, close to the people who elected her. Real close.

King has proposed renting 1,500 square feet of space for $2,500 a month at the Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation — where she had been president and chief executive officer for 10 years before she was elected last November.

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Transit workers leader calls for end of private service

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The city of Coral Gables is about to honor it’s founder, George Merrick, by naming June 3 Founder’s Day. This item on Tuesday’s commission agenda is for a new yearly designation for a day that will likely be marked in the future by events and exhibits or essay contests.

But, as in other celebrations of the City Beautiful’s father, there’s no plan to include any mention of his segregationist past, a documented fact that caused the University of Miami to remove his name from a parking garage last year.

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In every election, judicial races get short shrift. They are the least studied, the least written about, the least talked about. Voters often don’t even know who they are putting on the bench, making decisions based on whether the names reflect their own ethnicity, or along gender lines.

It certainly doesn’t help that judges, in order to keep the perception of being unbiased, are not allowed to campaign on ideas or positions. So, it basically becomes a popularity contest, about whose name has more rec.

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The city of Coral Gables is in charge of the Coral Gables Golf and Country Club now — and it’s closed for at least a month. So, no Mother’s Day brunch.

The Granada Golf Course and tennis center remain open. For now, anyway.

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