The following is a press release issued by the City of Ukiah:
Ukiah has been named one of the 16 “Strongest Towns” in the nation and the only nominee in California! To become #1, Ukiah will go head to head with 15 other North American cities in the 9th Annual Strongest Town Contest, and voting begins Monday, March 4. In this bracket-style voting tournament, Ukiah will compete for the “Strongest Town” title by shining a national spotlight on its progress toward safety, financial resiliency, housing and transportation. Help support this small, Northern California city that’s doing big things!
Cast your vote for Ukiah, starting Monday, March 4, at strongesttown.com.
Competitors will advance over five rounds in a March Madness-style competition, based on weekly voting periods. One champion will be honored at the Strong Towns National Gathering, with two representatives flown in and presented with an award. Strong Towns will also create a short documentary film about the winning city.
Here’s how voting works. In the first round, Ukiah will compete with three other cities in a special category, “Building Better Budgets.” Then, all cities will advance to Round 2, where they will compete head to head and advance weekly based on votes collected during that period:
- R1: Meet Your Contestants (March 4–8).
- R2: Sweet Sixteen (March 11–15)
- R3: Elite Eight (March 18–22).
- R4: Final Four (April 1–5).
- R5: Championship (April 8–12).
Monday through Thursday of each round is a new voting period, so it’s important that people cast a new vote for Ukiah each week.
The Champion will be announced on Monday, April 15. Previous contest winners have adapted their roads to be safer and pedestrian friendly, created public centers where local commerce thrives, and provided access to community services through a strong network of community partnerships. What do all these Strongest Towns have in common? They put people first.
Strong Towns is a 501c(3) nonprofit and media advocacy organization that shifts conversations around the North American development pattern. Through articles, podcasts, videos, live events, and city partnerships, they provide knowledge and tools to help cities transform their streets and communities. This is their 9th annual Strongest Town Contest.
“Ukiah will compete for the “Strongest Town” title by shining a national spotlight on its progress toward safety, financial resiliency, housing and transportation.”
I almost fell out of my chair! Ukiah, the same town with more and more unhoused individuals wandering out into our pothole filled streets, surely a sign of financial resiliency and safety!
Unhoused? Oh, you mean drug addicted useless bums.
I love the content that their YouTube channel puts out. I don’t think Ukiah is anywhere near being a “Strong Town”, I actually hope we win and they come here to do one of their episodes. Would be most entertaining to hopefully see them rip our city a new one and point out all of the derelict buildings throughout Ukiah.
This is the exact kind of mind numbing journalism I expect from this source and why I will never donate till it’s a non-fiction news source
It’s a press release, dude.
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I’m pretty sure by printing this press release Matt is giving us the chance to point out the obvious yet unbelievable way we are all being infantilized and talked down to by strongtowns.com.
The perfect opportunity is now provided to mention double speak: strong towns is for WEAK towns! Towns that need help! Help!
Wat to go, clown. Your weak intellect cost us the strong town contest!
Wat to go!! ??
Is this some sort of drug addled crude attempt at humor? Are they referring to Ukiah Oregon perhaps or Ucrappa,California? Just to clarify my father moved my family to Ukiah in 1958 when I was seven so I was able to experience to the really good years With the seventies being the very best.
I remember those days too. We had no idea how good we had it! My grandparents were Grange members–the town was a farm town! The hippie buses began rolling in when people from everywhere decided they wanted to “get back to nature” (remember Jim Jones). After that nothing was ever the same.
Omg lol!!! I’m dying of laughter
I feel like writing a haiku:
lady in line poor
Safeway or Social Service?
needs shower and help
Light Cover Gobbi
And Orchard intersection
North West Corner, broken
Veterans move now
Air Quality needs more space
Nevermind sorry
I need a doctor
I am scared of the rail trail
Please I need a job
No paint on the streets
Somethings wrong with my ballot
Makes it hard to drive
This is great! Lol!
Thanks!
There is nothing for our kids to do here unfortunately. Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s in Ukiah we had an arcade, the bowling alley, the skating rink. Nowadays the kids have their phones, video games and drugs. It’s not just Ukiah that is tore up like a 60 year old methed out street hooker it’s a lot of California. We give, give, give to the bums (not the same as homeless)and immigrants but make it so hard on the taxpayers that actually keep things afloat. Recall Newsom and think twice about how you vote.
Myself and many friends would ride our bicycles through town with our pellet guns,22 rifles or shotguns and or fishing poles lying in plain sight across the handle bars.So that we could access the pear orchards and continue on to the river.This was prior to the freeway and we as kids could go anywhere and pretty much do whatever we pleased within reason.The same applied for most of the old vine vineyards and the western hills as well.Most parents in those days would just tell their kids make sure to be home on time for dinner and never had to worry about them.And there were no speed bumps required in neighborhoods either.
Yep around ‘89 and ‘90 Riverside Park and Rusty Bowl area was our duck hunting grounds. And the old Ford Gravel ponds across the river. We used to walk through Oak Manner from my buddies house on Pomo Dr, two 14 year old kids with their 12 gauge’s slung over their shoulders and duck hunting vests going duck hunting. Nobody blinked an eye. Try that now and see what happens.
Leftys screeching weapons of war weapons of war oh my! with the swat team in hot pursuit wasting valuable law enforcement man power and tax dollars.
My goal is to move to a state where it is still legal to drive around with a rifle or shotgun hanging in your gun rack in the back window of your truck. Ah the good old days. I miss them. And I’m only 48. I’m finding out that relocating after your family has been here for 60 years isn’t as easy as one might think.
I feel your pain. My family has been here for over 160 years and if I was in my 40’s instead of my 70’s I’d be outa here. Now I’ve contented myself to be a crabby bastard and continually remind people how good we had it at one time.
#1 for drugs, overdoses, homelessness, empty buildings, shitty streets, police corruption, DA corruption! We should win! Great achievements get rid of the city manager. Look around people!
Thins must be an early April Fools joke!?
The dirty awnings
Junkies and bums at your car
Vacant store fronts, sad downtown
Thank you houndman
If you “Live” here what can you do to help make it stronger? ???