Starting Sept. 13, 2006 anyone with a laptop can plop down on (a park bench in University Circle) and get free, fast Internet access, thanks to a wireless network that's been in the works for more than a year, the PD reports.

OneCommunity, a nonprofit ultra-broadband provider; Case Western Reserve University; Cisco Systems; and other partners paid $1 million to create the wireless network, or "cloud," that will cover a small section of University Circle in two weeks and expand to a 5-square-mile area during the next few months.