Whoever said that Minnesota is just "fly-over" country (and that all we do up here is freeze our butts off) should note these two developments:

• Minnesota Public Radio reports on a proposal to provide universal WiFi access in St Paul.
• CNN reports on Chaska, MN rolling out wireless broadband for its citizens.

With Voice over IP (VoIP) companies like  Vonage rolling out a WiFi phone, the time of free urban wireless telephony (and, of course, internet access) is at hand.

Now if I could just have always on internet in my car…