Contact: Claudia Peschiutta, SPJ/LA (323) 228-8230

RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH SPJ-LA’S JANUARY MIXER!
MONDAY, JANUARY 19

It’s a new year but the big California story hasn’t changed…the state’s growing budget deficit. It’s a complicated issue, so get yourself a drink and get your questions answered at the Society of Professional Journalists’ first mixer of the year on Monday, January 19.

Our guest will be UCLA management and public policy professor Daniel J. B. Mitchell, who comments regularly on state budget issues and has written extensively about California’s boom-and-bust cycles.

The mixer is free and open to all! Please let us know you’re coming by sending an e-mail to: spjlosangeles@gmail.com

Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to a well-informed citizenry; works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists; and protects First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. To learn more about SPJ-LA, visit our Web site: spjla.wordpress.com

WHAT: SPJ-LA’s January Mixer

WHO: Our guest will be UCLA management and public policy professor
Daniel J. B. Mitchell

WHEN: 6:30 p.m. on Mon., Jan. 19

WHERE: We’ll meet in the back room at the Redwood Bar and Grill, 316 W. 2nd Street in downtown L.A; 213-680-2600. Street and lot parking is available in the area. The bar is close to the Civic Center Red Line Metro stop.

COST: It’s free fun for all! (You’ll have to buy your own drinks. Happy hour ends at 7 p.m. so get your drinks early!)