During the 1990s, the paper sharpened its reputation for investigative reporting and in-depth news analysis (the idea, said editor Steve Perry, was to "take your best shot at answering the question readers care about, which is: what the hell is really going on here?") with stories like this report on the state's pending bailout of Northwest Airlines, which won two of the many investigative reporting awards claimed by managing editor Monika Bauerlein in her decade-plus at CP.