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Shira Schoenberg

Concord Monitor staff

Position: Reporter
Phone: 603-369-3319
Email: Email Shira Schoenberg
Twitter account(s): @shiraschoenberg
Biography: Shira Schoenberg is the Monitor's State House reporter. Shira has been working at the Monitor since June 2006. She previously covered Concord City Hall. During the 2008 presidential primary, she covered Barack Obama's New Hampshire campaign. Her first Monitor beat was covering seven towns to the west of Concord, including Bow, Hopkinton and Hillsboro. She won the Monitor's annual Publisher's Award in 2008.
Shira has a master's degree in newspaper journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She has a bachelor's degree in history, also from Columbia.
Shira grew up in Maryland. Before coming to the Monitor, she spent a year working at a weekly newspaper in Boston.

Most recent content by Shira Schoenberg

Workers have eyes on exits

With their state pension benefits at risk, public employees are rushing to retire before the Legislature can act. The number of public employees who plan to retire this June is five times higher than the number of employees who retired last June. The number of police officers and firefighters set to retire this year… 57

May 8, 2011

House passes voter ID bill

The New Hampshire House yesterday passed a bill that would require voters to show photo identification at the polls, by a vote of 243-111. "We have an obligation to make sure no one who's qualified to vote is denied the opportunity to vote, but also to make sure no one votes who's not truly qualified to vote," said Rep. David Bates, a Windham Republican and chairman of the House… 1

May 5, 2011

Pension bill headed to negotiation

House and Senate negotiators could begin reconciling a comprehensive pension reform plan as early as Monday after both chambers voted on the bill yesterday. The House voted 238-121 to approve an amended version of Senate Bill 3, a pension reform bill originally sponsored by Sen. Jeb Bradley, a Wolfeboro Republican.… 2

May 5, 2011

Lee

'It doesn't bring my husband back'

In Washington and New York, where 3,000 people were murdered in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, revelers celebrated the death of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Andrea LeBlanc of Lee, whose husband, Robert LeBlanc, was aboard one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center, was not among them. "Certainly,… 0

May 3, 2011

'The world is safer'

HHS officials try to stitch safety net

The state is trying to find a new way to help children with mental health and developmental disabilities who can no longer be handled in the community but who will lose their court-ordered services under proposed budget cuts. As the Senate Finance Committee considers the 2012-2013 budget proposed by the House, the Department of Health and Human Services will likely be asking the… 1

April 30, 2011

Primary 2012

Younger Paul to father: After you

Rand Paul at Merrimack County Republicans

Only one member of the Paul family will run for president in 2012, and it will likely be the elder. Two days after Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul set up an exploratory committee to run for president in 2012, his son, Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said he does not anticipate running. "I always promised… 5

April 29, 2011

Rand Paul unlikely to run in 2012

Only one member of the Paul family will run for president in 2012, and it will likely be the elder. Two days after Texas Rep. Ron Paul set up an exploratory committee to run for president in 2012, his son, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said he does not anticipate running. “I always promised I wouldn’t run… 5

April 28, 2011

Two plans to reform retirement system

Two comprehensive retirement bills are pending in the Legislature. The Legislative Budget Assistant has not yet calculated the fiscal impact of the bills as amended. Senate Bill 3 (as passed by the Senate). Sponsored by Wolfeboro Republican Sen. Jeb Bradley • Earnable compensation (the salary and benefits used to calculate retirement benefits) for employees vested before… 1

April 17, 2011

Retirement reform may lead to lawsuits

Retirement reform may lead to lawsuits

State Rep. Ken Hawkins talked to a lawyer recently, but he's not spilling the beans. Hawkins, a Bedford Republican, is chairman of the House Special Committee on Public Employee Pension Reform, which is working on changing the retirement system. Union representatives have warned that the retirement reform bills being proposed by both the House and the Senate this session are… 17

April 17, 2011

Two plans to reform retirement system

To do list

A BIPARTISAN GROUP of state senators will discuss the politics of problem-solving on Tuesday. The free event, sponsored by the group No Labels, will be at 7 p.m. at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester. Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, will moderate the discussion with state Sens. Lou D'Allesandro,… 0

April 17, 2011