if one mayor represented all of alameda and contra costa counties -- don't worry, it'll never happen -- that person's 2.3 million constituents would live in the country's fourth-largest city. and just as these east bay counties are very different from the rest of the san francisco bay area, the east bay express is a very different paper. from the international populations that make oakland and fremont so dynamic, to the ideological diversity that separates berkeley from the bedroom communities to its east, these cosmopolitan readers are united ...