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Beginning July 1, Calfornia and Washngton will join the roster of states requiring drivers to use hands-free phones while making cell phone calls.

"If we have readily available technology that costs next to nothing that saves lives, why not use it?" asks California state Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), who sponsored the bill. By having two hands on the wheel, he says, the driver is better able to handle an emergency situation.

"There isn't a study in the world that says you are safer clutching a cell phone to your ear than you are with both hands on the wheel," Simitian says.

Guess I've just been lucky. My neighbors have been terrific wherever I've lived. Of course I don't know what my neighbors think about me - like there's anything wrong with watering your plants at midnight with Bob Seger blaring from the boombox on the patio or keeping a couple of spare parts cars in the driveway for a couple of years.

People can be so picky. That's why rottenneighbor.com provides a Jerry Springer-ish jolt of "glad-I-don't-live-on-that-street" catharsis. No matter how annoying your neighbor might be, he/she probably can't compare to these folks:

Was Southwest Airlines' announcement it was adding 20 flights from DIA on the same day Frontier said it was cutting its service and slashing its workforce just a coincidence?

That's what Southwest says, but Rocky business editor Rob Reuteman says there's no doubt Southwest Airlines is doing its damnedest to put Frontier out of business.

Reuteman will be online at 11 a.m. to talk about the Southwest/Frontier situation. E-mail questions/comments in advance and join the chat here at 11.