About Jeff Victor and this site

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Jeff Victor is a Laramie-based reporter, writing primarily for Wyoming Public Media. He is also a freelance journalist, covering local politics, protests, pandemics and any other topic that serves to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. His reporting has appeared in WyoFile, the Laramie Boomerang, and other news outlets across the state.

This is a site for his long-form local reporting, which currently has no other home in Laramie but is essential for the continued health of the community and the survival of democracy.

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