Articles by Seth Hettena

9 articles since 1998

Former Soldier Takes On A New Mission

News | By Seth Hettena | June 12, 2005
Since he left the Army in January as a conscientious objector, Aidan Delgado has traveled the country giving audiences a disturbing account of routine brutality that he claims he saw during his year in Iraq. Read more
 

Water: A New Cash Crop

News | By Seth Hettena | January 4, 2004
Ron Aschermann could barely eke out a living raising melons, cucumbers, tomatoes and other crops on his 300-acre farm. Read more
 

Imperial Valley Is Thirsting for a Water Fight

News | By Seth Hettena | March 2, 2003
The field of wheat across the street was a sand dune when John F. Menvielle was a boy growing watermelons. Read more
 

Benefactors See a Way to Give Gift of Sight

News | By Seth Hettena | May 5, 2002
On a gray April morning, a Mexican boy and his mother sit in a doctor’s office in San Diego. Read more
 

Gateway Advertising Campaign Inviting Legal Downloads

Business | By Seth Hettena | April 13, 2002
The recording industry is having a cow over an ad campaign that features a Holstein singing along to a hip-hop cover of a Gordon Lightfoot tune. Read more
 

Returning to Earth From Heaven’s Gate

California | Local | By Seth Hettena | April 7, 2002
After three years of regimented life within the Heaven’s Gate cult, Rio DiAngelo walked away in 1997 because of a “disturbing” feeling that he needed to escape. Read more
 

Mourners Gather Where Girl’s Body Was Found

California | Local | By Seth Hettena | March 3, 2002
Laura Davis said she felt drawn to the quiet patch of shade under an oak tree where searchers last week found the body of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. Read more
 

California Farmers Push Plan to Legalize ‘Driverless’ Tractors

California | Local | By Seth Hettena | August 30, 1998
They are a strange sight: massive tractors rumbling across the table-flat fields of California’s lush Central Valley and coastal farmland–with no driver at the wheel. Read more
 

Three Family Members Involved in Bizarre Series of Highway Accidents

California | Local | By Seth Hettena | August 23, 1998
Last month, officers of the California Highway Patrol issued a strange warning to drivers on Highway 89. Read more
 
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