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BREWER, Maine Municipal leaders will consider a resolve Tuesday that will withdraw the citys support for building a proposed Interstate 395-Route 9 connector road that has been in the planning stages for more than a dozen years.

Its pretty darn clear that city councilors are upset with the Maine Department of Transportation, City Manager Steve Bost said Monday.

City Council members are frustrated with the DOTs recent actions mainly the departments recent change of its preferred route from one selected in 2003 without first consulting city or area town leaders.

In an unusual move all five councilors have put their names on a resolve withdrawing support for building the limited-access highway.

While city leaders support improving the transportation corridor between the Canadian Maritime Provinces and the federal highway system, The City of Brewer and other stakeholders have been excluded from the public process as well as the decision-making process used by the DOT, the proposed council resolve states.

State transportation officials have been studying a Brewer-Holden-Eddington connector since before 2000. Brewer and Eddington leaders learned in January that the DOT had selected a new preferred I-395-Route 9 connector route.

A draft Environmental Impact Study and Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit Application which include more than 300 pages of information have been completed on the new preferred route and two others that are similar, and the state and federal governments are now taking public comment, the states I-395-Route 9 connector website states.

Maine transportation officials recently eliminated the proposed route they selected in 2003 which was supported by Brewer councilors and would have cut through the mostly unpopulated center of Holden and have now selected the 2B2 option.

The new preferred route would extend I-395 at its Wilson Street junction and would roughly follow the Holden-Brewer line until entering Eddington and connecting with 4.5 miles of rebuilt Route 9.

The DOT and the Federal Highway Administration also are officially considering two other alternatives 5A2B2 and 5B2B2 which are similar to 2B2.

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) In the race to be the first to approve Internet gambling and dominate a potentially multi-billion-dollar market New Jersey lawmakers heard what they wanted to hear Monday from a Seton Hall law professor and expert on the state constitution.

John Wefing told an Assembly panel he doesn't believe voters need to approve Internet gambling in order to make it legal. Wefing said existing law gives the Legislature and the governor the power to decide what forms of gambling are appropriate for Atlantic City. That authority, he said, came from a constitutional amendment passed by voters in 1976 that legalized casino gambling in New Jersey, and restricted it only to Atlantic City.

New Jersey wants to let its residents gamble online as long as they are within the state's borders. But Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a law last year that would have done so, citing concern about its constitutionality.

A key question is whether having the computer servers in Atlantic City would satisfy state law requiring all casino gambling to take place in Atlantic City.

"It is permissible to expand gambling in Atlantic City if the gambling is actually taking place in Atlantic City," Wefing testified.

Supporters note that the computer servers that actually process and accept bets would all be located in Atlantic City, either on casino property or in a remote location somewhere within the city limits. But in his veto message a year ago, Christie expressed doubts about the constitutionality of the bill and suggested voters decide the matter through a referendum.

On Monday, Christie said he could conceivably sign a bill approving Internet gambling without a referendum, as long as the state Attorney General's Office and other legal authorities he has consulted say it would be OK.

State Sen. Raymond Lesniak had predicted that both houses of the Legislature could approve an Internet gambling bill and send it to Christie's desk by Thursday. But Assemblyman John Burzichelli, sponsor of one of the bills, said that won't happen. Such a vote is at least a few weeks away, he said.

"We have a clash of technology and the constitution," he said. "In 1976, none of this was contemplated. And yet there's room to make it fit."

Lesniak said New Jersey can't afford to wait too long, noting the chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board has predicted his state could begin granting Internet poker licenses in that state in May or June, with companies having games up and running before the end of this year.

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