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  ADVERTISEMENT New from  CommonWealth Beacon HOUSING : Last May, legislation was passed allowing  tenants to petition  to have their past eviction cases sealed from public view, but advocates say few people know about the change in the law. Massachusetts courts logged more than a million eviction case filings since 1988; in the year since the law took effect, just 6,284 petitions to seal cases have been filed. Jennifer Smith has the story.  OPINION : The state should stop separating siblings into different foster homes,  writes Rahsaan Mustafa-Coentro . He says an estimated 70 percent of the Bay State’s foster children have been separated from at least one sibling while under state care. A pending bill would prioritize placing siblings together, when possible, and would, he writes, help children maintain “in some...