Forget living here for a long time: Anyone who has ever even considered possibly being interested in maybe moving to New Jersey knows that finding a good school district that is also affordable can sometimes seem impossible.

Jersey City officials and the Liberty Science Center have unveiled plans to develop a new science and technology center on the land surrounding the attraction, complete with incubator space, a hotel and a host of other business facilities.

Rutgers University's recent announcement puts a giant stake in the ground regarding what is possible for the college's fundraising campaigns. At the end of a seven-and-a-half-year push, the university surpassed its fundraising goal of $1 billion by 3.7 percent.

Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, an expert in the fields of health disparities and nicotine addiction in minority populations, has been named dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, effective April 2015.

If you live in New Jersey, you finally have something to cheer about.

On a stage with Seton Hall President Dr. A. Gabriel Esteban, Roche Vice President Tom Lyon, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Hackensack University Health Network CEO Robert C. Garrett tried to sum up the significance of the announcement.

The first inkling of what would become one of the biggest and most surprising development deals in recent New Jersey history started innocently enough. And seemingly without much chance for success.
At a social gathering.

On Thursday, Hackensack University Health Network and Seton Hall University formally announced their plans to start the state's first four-year, private medical school on the campus of the former Roche headquarters in Nutley and Clifton.

Dr. Paul Katz is the dean of New Jersey's newest medical school, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, which will graduate its first class of 48 doctors in 2016.

Hackensack University Health Network and Seton Hall University will announce Thursday that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to start a private four-year school of medicine to be located on the campus of the former Roche headquarters in North Jersey.