Episode 18: Michael Melham

The Old Guard is finally letting go of some towns in New Jersey, and fresh-faced, newly-elected mayors are blowing off the cobwebs. Take a peek into Belleville, where Mayor Michael Melham, 44, in his tenth month in office, walked into a town hall where no one expected the mayor to actually show up. He is building himself an actual office to do actual work, he is trying to find modern-day computers to link with printers and even has high hopes the municipal email address system will one day be reliable. Melham stepped into the Jaffe Podcast studio for a candid talk about what it takes to get everyone together and begin the uphill climb toward real change.