If you build it, will they come?

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 d…