If you build it, will they come?

Oregon’s leading politicians want to bet billions of dollars on a new shipping terminal. Critics say it’s a costly mistake.

By Nigel Jaquiss

Oregon Journalism Project

City leaders recall when ships knifed between the jetties protecting Coos Bay almost every day.

They came to load wood products at the deepest harbor between Seattle and San Francisco.

Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge over Coos Bay.
— Photo courtesy of John Bragg

 

In its glory days,…

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