Shira Schoenberg

Reporter, CommonWealth

About Shira Schoenberg

Shira Schoenberg is a reporter at CommonWealth magazine. Shira previously worked for more than seven years at the Springfield Republican/MassLive.com where she covered state politics and elections, covering topics as diverse as the launch of the legal marijuana industry, problems with the state's foster care system and the elections of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Gov. Charlie Baker. Shira won the Massachusetts Bar Association's 2018 award for Excellence in Legal Journalism and has had several stories win awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association. Shira covered the 2012 New Hampshire presidential primary for the Boston Globe. Before that, she worked for the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, where she wrote about state government, City Hall and Barack Obama's 2008 New Hampshire primary campaign. Shira holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

About Shira Schoenberg

Shira Schoenberg is a reporter at CommonWealth magazine. Shira previously worked for more than seven years at the Springfield Republican/MassLive.com where she covered state politics and elections, covering topics as diverse as the launch of the legal marijuana industry, problems with the state's foster care system and the elections of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Gov. Charlie Baker. Shira won the Massachusetts Bar Association's 2018 award for Excellence in Legal Journalism and has had several stories win awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association. Shira covered the 2012 New Hampshire presidential primary for the Boston Globe. Before that, she worked for the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, where she wrote about state government, City Hall and Barack Obama's 2008 New Hampshire primary campaign. Shira holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Stories by Shira Schoenberg

Lawsuit alleges racial discrimination in tenant screening tool

US Attorney says algorithms are susceptible to human biases

Plummeting prices destabilize Mass. marijuana market

Some industry officials call for a moratorium on licensing new operators

Board named for social equity marijuana loan fund

Panel will advise Healey administration on how to dispense money

Lantern closure shakes marijuana delivery market

Referral website cites difficulty in expanding outside Mass.

Maura Healey sworn in as 73rd Massachusetts governor 

Lays out wide-ranging agenda on housing, higher ed, climate

Healey’s office asks SJC to reinstate charges in Soldiers’ Home deaths

Judge dropped criminal negligence charges against former superintendent  

Baker bids farewell 

Governor points to accomplishments, pandemic challenges 

Boston employee vaccine mandate heads to SJC

Unions say requirement to get COVID shots should have been fully bargained 

COVID dominates CommonWealth’s 2022 most-read news stories

Vaccine mandates, masks, remote work still in the headlines

Bump says DiZoglio is being ‘well-schooled’ on auditor’s duties

Leaving office, she marvels at how poor agencies are at policing themselves

Berkshire County study tracks use of plea deals

Disparities based on race, lawyer type uncovered

Baker officials slammed for criminal justice reform compliance

Administration declines to testify before Judiciary Committee

SJC rules physician-assisted suicide is illegal 

Says lawmakers, not courts, must decide whether to change state policy

Marijuana content labels can’t be trusted

Testing reveals inconsistencies on THC, contaminants

Healey picks Patrick Tutwiler, former Lynn superintendent, for education secretary 

Veteran educator currently leads high school innovation programming for the Barr Foundation 

Baker nominates Jubinville for clerk magistrate

Governor’s Councilor, a Democrat, must be confirmed by colleagues

Baker withdraws Amirault pardon recommendations 

Cites lack of support from Governor’s Council 

Governor’s Councilors skeptical of Amirault pardons

Hours-long hearing resurrects debate about 1980s child sex abuse case

Healey taps Matthew Gorzkowicz for state budget chief 

Administration and finance pick is longtime government ‘policy wonk’ 

Boston marijuana shop opens with construction workers unpaid

Rooted In trumpets social justice, but subcontractors say they were stiffed