Jeff Victor
ReporterLeave a tip: jvictor@uwyo.edu
Jeff is a part-time reporter for Wyoming Public Media, as well as the owner and editor of the Laramie Reporter, a free online news source providing in-depth and investigative coverage of local events and trends. His work has also appeared in the Laramie Boomerang and WyoFile.
Interning as a science reporter with WPM during the summer of 2019, Jeff was promoted to his current position while finishing his master’s degree at University of Wyoming. In a former life as a Laramie Boomerang reporter, he was awarded six Pacemakers for his coverage of the university and Laramie culture. In his free time, Jeff laments the loss of his left kidney, drowning that sorrow with books about science, mead made locally, and far too many podcasts. His cat, Ramona, is far more interesting.
He specializes in political and science reporting, and enjoys afflicting the comfortable.
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The program would give up to $7,000 of public funds to help families pay for private, charter or home schooling costs. Wyoming's teachers association argues it will defund public schools. -
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As Wyoming starts recalibrating its public school funding, state educators and parents have brought a second lawsuit alleging the state is failing to support its schools. -
Educators and parents have filed a lawsuit aiming to stop the state's school voucher program from going into effect this summer. The program allows state money to be used for private school tuition. -
State lawmakers are preparing to rework the funding model for public schools. Residents told a committee last week they want to see more money spent on schools as well as more career training. -
The display of Pride flags outside the Evansville town hall had inspired one local man to protest by covering the nearby sidewalk with chalk swastikas. -
Cameron Wright claims UW stripped him of his deanship for halting plans to move state funds from the engineering college to the computing school run by the president’s partner. -
The refiled federal suit drops the trans student at its heart as a defendant. It also drops several of its plaintiffs. -
UW's Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter admitted a transgender student in 2022, prompting a federal lawsuit, national attention and now a U.S. Department of Education investigation. -
Hemp shops seek to re-legalize outlawed marijuana substitute
