Government and politics

Cities, counties and groups from Florida and other parts of the country are trying to help sway a federal appeals court to reconsider a potentially far-reaching decision that blocked bans on the controversial practice known as “conversion therapy.” 

As the year comes to a close, here's a look back at the stories that stayed in the headlines.

It will be a lot harder to put proposed constitutional amendments on the 2022 ballot in Florida.

Attorneys for the cities argued that the ballot language calling for creating a “growth management area” did not signal the actual impact: Municipalities would no longer exercise their own land use rules.

The new county boundaries would stretch from the Gilchrist County-Alachua County border east to West 34th Street in Gainesville.