05.14.20 4:32
The 30th annual Saturday in the Park delayed from its July 4th date in Sioux City because of COVID-19.
In an online news conference today, SITP organizer Dave Bernstein made the announcement, He said, tentatively, they were looking at some dates in late August or September,
"It’s the right decision, it’s the decision we have to make, July 4th is six weeks from now. And just feels way to soon to risk tyring to have the vfest and ulitimatley having the festival pulled out from us and that would be a bummer."
Bernstein also said the organizers chances of being able to pull off the festival in the fall being 50/50. He addes the decision to delay the festival was a hard one to make.
Republican leaders are pushing back on U.S. Rep. Steve King, who this week said he would be reassigned to his congressional committees more than a year after he'd been stripped of those posts.
The response comes after King said in a Monday night forum that he had reached an agreement with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy to return to his committees. King was removed from several house committees in January 2019 after telling the New York Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”
King has said he does not support white nationalism and has said those comments were taken out of context for political reasons. In announcing that he would seek a 10th term in 2020 despite the controversy, King said, "I have nothing to apologize for"
