Current Minimum Wage. Texas adopts the federal minimum wage rate. Effective July 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. The Texas Minimum Wage Act does not prohibit employees from bargaining collectively with their employers for a higher wage. With specified restrictions, employers may count tips and the value of meals and lodging toward minimum wage.
The university officially opened on October 1, 1891 to 555 students. On the university's opening day, Founding President David Starr Jordan (1851â1931) said to Stanford's Pioneer Class: [Stanford] is hallowed by no traditions; it is hampered by none. Its finger posts all point forward..
CONTACT. Stanford is the second oldest settlement in Kentucky. Established by pioneer Benjamin Logan in 1775 as Logan's fort. Stanford is the county seat of Lincoln County. Stanford is the home of Kentucky's first Governor Isaac Shelby, famous Aviator-Caswell Saufley, and Sophie Alcorn well known educator of deaf/blind children who established sign language techniques that are still used today.