The D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation announced Friday that it has hired a new executive director as it continues to try to move beyond questions about its role in former council member Harry Thomas Jr.’s theft of more than $300,000 in city funds.

The organization’s board of directors selected Ed Davies, a former vice president at the trust, to head up the quasi-public/private group that directs resources to programs that support at-risk youths. Davies becomes the trust’s first permanent executive director since the board fired longtime director Ellen London in March.

“Ed brings a long history of working to improve the lives of children and youth in the District,” said Robert C. Bobb, chairman of the trust’s board of directors. “I anticipate that Ed will have an immediate and sustained impact on the human resources and fiscal responsibilities of the trust as it continues its unrelenting commitment to serving the children of D.C. through the Opportunity Scholarship Fund, after-school programs and the Summer Youth Employment Program.

The D.C. Alcohol Beverage Administration has granted an additional seven bars and restaurants permission to serve alcohol Sunday night until 4 a.m. Monday and remain open all night, the second test of the city’s new extended night-life hours on the night before a federal District holiday.

As part of the city’s fiscal 2013 budget, bars and restaurants that apply to ABRA are permitted to stay open until 4 a.m. and serve food round-the-clock on the night before a holiday. On New Year’s, Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor Day, extended closing times will be permitted for the entire weekend leading up to the holiday.

The extended hours kicked off last month for Columbus Day after 42 bars and restaurants where given permission to remain open later. Fred Moosally, director of ABRA, said no significant problems were reported though a few establishments were cited for remaining open past the normal 2 a.m. closing time without first receiving permission.

After long lines on Election Day and a surge in residents voting early, the D.C. Council plans to review how the city handled the 2012 election, Council member Muriel Bowser said Thursday.

FILE: D.C. council member Muriel Bowser, right, speaks to council chairman Phil Mendelson. (Sarah L. Voisin - WASHINGTON POST)

Bowser (D-Ward 4), the chairwoman of the Committee on Government Operations, said she and other members have concerns that the D.C. Board of Elections wasn’t fully prepared for the tens of thousands of voters who swarmed both the city’s eight early voting locations as well as its 143 precincts on elections day.

Some residents reported two hour-plus waits to vote on Tuesday. During early voting, some waited in line more than three hours.

The long lines prompted an outburst from D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8).

“”This election is one of the worst run elections I have seen since I’ve been in Washington DC,” Barry said in an interview about midday.

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Two key members of Congress have requested an official study of the limits on building heights in the District, another small step toward a possible change in the law.

The limit on building heights has given the District skyline a unique look. (Ron Edmonds — Associated Press)

House Government Reform and Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wrote to Mayor Vincent Gray and the National Capital Planning Commission last month to ask the city and the NCPC commence a study of the Height of Buildings Act of 1910, which dictates that that the height of buildings on commercial streets in the District cannot exceed the width of the street by more than 20 feet and cannot exceed 130 feet overall. (Buildings can be higher in just one area: on Pennsylvania Avenue between First and 15th streets NW.)

On residential streets, building heights generally can’t surpass street widths by more than 10 feet, up to a maximum of 90 feet.

The D.C. Primary Care Association announced Wednesday its longtime executive director, Sharon Baskerville, will step down next month.

In a statement, the association’s board of directors says Baskerville’s last day will be Dec. 3.

“The Board of Directors expresses its great appreciation to Sharon for her passion, vision, leadership, and advocacy.  DCPCA and more importantly our community is a better, more just place because of her tremendous contributions,” said Dr. Rhonique Shields-Harris, chairwoman of the board.