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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Proposed legislation to establish an affordable housing fund died without discussion. At least two other affordable housing bills remain in the House. -
The commission will draft guidelines for ethical use in labs and classrooms, outline funding and partnership opportunities and more. -
Open Spaces show rundown for January 30, 2026 -
Wyoming’s recalibration of its public school funding model would boost teacher pay but cut their number while increasing target class sizes. -
The $1.8 billion school recalibration bill will boost teacher pay but cut positions. The bill now heads to the full Legislature.
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State appropriators voted to slash the entirety of Wyoming Public Media’s state funds, axing about 17% of the station’s overall budget. -
Megan Degenfelder has been Wyoming’s chief of schools since 2023. Her campaign announcement promises she’ll stand with Trump. -
Freedom Caucus leaders pilloried environment and gender studies offerings at UW, saying they represented the “wrong direction” for Wyoming’s state university. -
Wyoming’s number of wildfires and acres burned were well above average, but well below the records set in 2024. -
UW says it "cannot guarantee reentry" for foreign employees who go home for the holidays. International students and employees are now subject to social media vetting by the feds. -
Lawmakers on the Joint Appropriations Committee are almost finished with the second week of hearing state agencies’ funding requests. Education funding was difficult to nail down. -
The school board in Laramie will decide the fate of an abandoned school property. There's an offer on the table to build workforce housing there.
